And broadly speaking, we may still have an entire societal consensus on both left and right that once the technology is here, you can’t really put the genie ... and being the Death Star.

The state has never used that method to execute a prisoner. The last time an inmate was killed by a firing squad was in 2010 ...

Lawyers are sparring over a COVID-19-related agreement that has shielded some people on Georgia's death row from execution.

Tennessee's attorney general has filed notice seeking execution dates for five men on death row. It's another sign the state ...

A federal jury found Donald “Lil’ Don” Lee and Torance “Blackie” Benson guilty of a racketeering conspiracy in November 2022 ...

A federal judge rejected a Georgia death row inmate's request to be executed by firing squad because he claims that lethal injection could cause him severe pain.

The US carried out a double state killing on Thursday, with two states executing intellectually disabled death row inmates.

A federal judge rejected a Georgia death row inmate's request to be executed by firing squad because he claims that lethal injection could cause him excruciating pain. Michael Wade Nance ...

Today, there are 63 people on Louisiana’s death row, well below the death row populations in Alabama and Texas, but almost twice the size of Mississippi’s. The last time a new death sentence was ...

Michael Wade Nance, on Georgia's death row for a 1993 murder, argued that lethal injection could cause him severe pain due to his medical history and proposed a firing squad as an alternative.

Elections have consequences, so the slogan goes. One of those consequences was on full display Feb. 5, in the minutes after ...

But for Cooper’s action, 2024 would have been the first year since 2016 in which no state granted clemency to any inmate on death row. In place after place, clemency boards and governors turned ...