No. South Dakota used hanging and the electric chair before its first lethal injection execution in 2007. The state adopted ...

The Department of Justice released a report proposing the reinstatement and expansion of controversial federal execution ...

Complications with lethal injections in recent years have led to the revival of execution methods that had been previously abandoned.

The Department of Justice's report is the latest development in the administration’s long campaign to execute as many people as possible.

Trump's DOJ announced last week it is bringing the practice back to federal death row. Death penalty critics are concerned ...

President Donald Trump’s administration plans to add firing squads, electrocution and gas asphyxiation as alternative methods of executing people convicted of the gravest federal crimes, it announced ...

Justice Sonia Sotomayor expressed concerns about Florida’s lethal injection procedure on Tuesday, urging more transparency as the Supreme Court denied a man’s emergency bid to avoid execution later in ...

An execution in the state of Alabama is raising more questions about a controversial drug used in lethal injections. Late last night, Alabama executed Ronald Bert Smith, a convicted murderer. In that ...

A Florida man convicted of beating and choking his 13-year-old step-niece to death nearly 50 years ago is set to be executed Thursday evening. James Ernest Hitchcock, 70, is scheduled to receive a ...

James Broadnax, 37, was executed by lethal injection in Texas after being convicted of the 2008 shootings of two Christian ...