Arkansas is one among several other states that are looking to replace their way of carrying out capital punishment by using ...

Supporters of the bill focused their arguments on efficiency, while some opponents cite a lack of data could bring potential ...

The legal team for Brad Sigmon has filed a motion for a stay of execution Thursday and a petition for a writ of habeas corpus ...

Arizona lawmakers consider reinstating the firing squad as a death penalty method because of issues with lethal injections. House committee passed a relevant bill, which now progresses through the ...

Both the federal government and South Carolina carry out the lethal injections using a single drug, pentobarbital, a powerful ...

On Wednesday, Senate Judiciary and Rules Committee members voted 6-3 to advance HB 37, a bill which would replace lethal ...

Arizona's House committee advances a bill proposing firing squads for executions, citing flaws in the lethal injection ...

A bill to make death by firing squad the main method of execution in Idaho is moving to the Senate floor for a vote after passing the Senate Judiciary and Rules Committee on Wednesday afternoon.

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 ...

The sponsor, Scottsdale Republican Rep. Alexander Kolodin, repeatedly told the House Committee on Regulatory Oversight his ...

The U.S. Supreme Court overturned the Circuit Court’s ruling and Justice Elena Kagan wrote Nance was, “not confined to ...