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

A judge ruled that a South Carolina inmate who killed a state trooper is incompetent to be executed due to mental illness ...

Trump's DOJ announced last week it is bringing the practice back to federal death row. Death penalty critics are concerned ...

No. South Dakota used hanging and the electric chair before its first lethal injection execution in 2007. The state adopted ...

A convicted double murderer has been executed by firing squad – the first such execution in the United States since 2010, according to the South Carolina Department of Corrections. The execution of ...

The report was a fulfillment of President Donald Trump's promise to resume capital punishment in his second term in the White House.

The Justice Department is bringing back firing squads and other execution methods for federal death row inmates. Could Florida do the same?

Florida has executed 19 people in 2025, a new state record set under Gov. Ron DeSantis. The number of executions in Florida this year is nearly four times higher than any other state. DeSantis has ...