South Carolina became the first state since 2010 to execute an inmate by firing squad. Is the method legal in?

Mississippi is one of five states that still permit executions by firing squad, alongside Utah, Oklahoma, Idaho and South Carolina. However, a firing squad execution has never been conducted in ...

Canada’s foreign minister said the government would continue to ask for leniency from China for other Canadians in similar ...

The U.S. Supreme Court rejected a last-ditch effort to block Louisiana’s first execution using nitrogen gas, which is ...

On the day that Louisiana’s first execution in 15 years is scheduled to take place, attorneys for the inmate are hoping for a ...

A new trial date has been set for a woman charged in a kidnapping and murder case that began in Louisiana and ended in ...

Louisiana used nitrogen gas to put a man to death Tuesday evening for a killing decades ago, marking the first time the state ...

Rafael Caro Quintero, who faces trial in Brooklyn, and at least four other drug cartel figures are vulnerable to the death ...

Mobile death vans' are said to be used in China to speed up the execution process in what has become a 'conveyor belt' with ...

Death row inmate Jessie Hoffman's execution marks the first time Louisiana has used the method and is the state's first ...

Twenty-eight states as well as the U.S. military and U.S. government authorize the use of lethal injection, in which an ...