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

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

The Justice Department will adopt firing squads as a permitted method of execution as the Trump administration moves to ramp ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Myth 6: Some botched executions in which we know the inmate suffered excruciating pain could have been prevented by a better protocol. Seven executions listed on the Death Penalty Information Center ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. As fervently as some may support the death penalty by lethal injection, when the process becomes the ...

WASHINGTON, May 2 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Friday said the botched execution of a murderer in Oklahoma raises questions about implementation of the death penalty and will ask the U.S.