Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Alabama has scheduled a March execution date for a man sentenced to death for a fatal shooting during a 1991 robbery even though ...

Indiana lawmakers tried to pass legislation that would allow the state to execute people using nitrogen gas or a firing squad. What's Undetermined: The legislation failed to pass. If it had become law ...

Louisiana used nitrogen gas to put a man to death Tuesday evening for a killing decades ago, marking the first time the state has used the method as it resumed executions after a 15-year hiatus.

Louisiana's infamous electric chair — dubbed by death row inmates as “Gruesome Gertie” — was last used for an execution in 1991, when the state moved to lethal injections as the sole method to carry ...

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This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The state of Alabama ...

Americans on the verge of execution could be again asking for a blindfold and cigarette soon. With the Justice Department rejiggering its death codes, lethal injections could give way to firing squads ...

As Gov. Ron DeSantis ramps up the number of executions in one year in Florida — with five convicted murders already executed and two more scheduled to die in June — the state has added new options for ...

Alabama has scheduled a March execution date for a man sentenced to death for a fatal shooting during a 1991 robbery even though he didn't pull the trigger. Gov. Kay Ivey on Thursday set a March 12 ...

Indiana lawmakers attempted to pass legislation that would allow the state execute people via gas chambers and firing squads. Rating: Mixture (About this rating?) What's True: Indiana lawmakers tried ...