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

A second death row inmate in South Carolina has chosen execution by firing squad. It comes just weeks after the first ...

The US Justice Department has reintroduced the firing squad as an execution method, reflecting a shift in federal death ...

Update at 8:19 p.m. ET. Execution Fails: According to reporters tweeting from inside the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester, Oklahoma, the execution of Clayton D. Lockett has failed. Lockett ...

A bungled execution in Oklahoma is providing death penalty opponents with a fresh example of how lethal injections can go wrong. But the odds of successfully challenging the nation’s main form of ...

Myth 3: Every botched execution is one in which the inmate may have felt excruciating pain. Of the 28 "botched" lethal injections on the Death Penalty Information Center's list, the majority (15) ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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) — Alabama corrections ...