South Carolina executed Brad Sigmon by firing squad on March 7, marking its first use of the execution method.

The latest schedule of executions in the United States is another grim reminder that capital punishment remains an entrenched ...

The Treviño Morales, leaders of Los Zetas, pleaded not guilty to drug trafficking charges as they potentially face the death ...

A New Orleans-area group decries the state’s efforts to use nitrogen gas to execute death row inmates because, members say, ...

Executions by firing squad are permitted in five states, but the new law will make Idaho the only state in which death by ...

If all executions scheduled through March 20 take place, nine people will have been executed in the first three months of the ...

Nitrogen hypoxia, a method of execution Arkansas lawmakers are considering adopting, makes for a torturous death, witnesses ...

Efforts to repeal the death penalty, not carried out in Pennsylvania since 1999, were revived this week with the introduction of legislation backed by a bipartisan group of lawmakers. The measure - ...

I want my closing statement to be one of love and a calling to my fellow Christians to help us end the death penalty,” Brad ...

Six death row inmates have been executed in the U.S. so far this year, compared to two by this time last year.

I want my closing statement to be one of love and a calling to my fellow Christians to help us end the death penalty,” Brad ...