A bill was introduced Tuesday to make the firing squad the primary method of execution by the state. Currently, the state’s ...

Trump campaigned heavily on expanding the death penalty and has asked attorney general to help states obtain lethal injection ...

Utah is the only state to have used firing squads in the past 50 years, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.

Trump wants to ramp up the federal death penalty. Before he left, the former attorney general made that harder ...

Currently, the state’s primary method of carrying out the death penalty is lethal injection, and the firing squad is to be used if the chemicals for lethal injection cannot be obtained.

Rep. Bruce Skaug, R-Nampa, introduced the bill Tuesday, which would make Idaho the only U.S. state to give preference to a ...

There is neither a better time nor occasion than the Jubilee Year to abolish the death penalty in the United States, ...

President of the United States of America Donald Trump has signed an executive order on the death penalty. The Attorney ...

India has in the past voted against a draft resolution of the United Nations General Assembly on the abolition of the death ...

Haishan Yang, a doctoral student in health economics, filed a lawsuit in federal court last week accusing the University of ...

One of the executive orders issued by President Donald Trump amid the flurry of actions on his first day in office yesterday aims to reverse the long national decline in executions and provide federal ...

Kolodin said he believes in the death penalty, but that the record shows the current method — approved by voters in 1992 — is filled with problems. “I don’t know what it is. But lethal ...