BOISE, Idaho — A bill establishing firing squads as Idaho’s primary method of execution has advanced to the Senate floor. On Wednesday, Senate Judiciary and Rules Committee members voted 6-3 to ...

INDIANAPOLIS — In October, Indiana is scheduled to execute Roy Lee Ward for raping and murdering 15-year-old Stacy Payne in 2001. Ward waited for Payne’s parents to leave their home for work on July ...

The possible execution of Margaret Nduta, 37, set for Monday in Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam, has sparked an online debate, with Kenyans pleading with the government to act swiftly and avert their ...

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT The brutal form of execution involved slicing parts of the body off a criminal until they died in an unimaginably painful manner ...

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT The brutal killing known as 'death by a thousand cuts', was a form of execution used in China, ...

Alabama’s new way of carrying out executions by nitrogen hypoxia is under review by a federal court as lawyers for a death row inmate try to establish that it causes unnecessary suffering. Lawyers for ...