The order shows the president’s desire for more executions. But it’s unclear how the administration will carry out its plans, ...

Lawyers for a South Carolina inmate set to die by lethal injection next week want his execution halted so they can get more ...

The president directed the attorney general to take “all appropriate action to seek the overruling” of high court precedents ...

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

Texas continues to lead other states on capital punishment. But the decline in new death sentences and executions reached a ...

Defense attorneys for Bryan Kohberger want critical DNA evidence in the high-profile case thrown out, arguing that the way law enforcement used investigative genetic genealogy (IG ...

A Mulberry-based fertilizer company neglected “basic safety measures” in the death of a 29-year-old woman working at one of its plants, an area director for the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health ...

Idaho has not carried out any executions by firing squads and a facility for such executions needs to be built. It is among the states that have turned to alternative methods after struggling to ...

A bill put forward by Republican lawmakers in Idaho has just passed a judiciary committee to make firing squads the primary ...

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

Republican lawmakers in Idaho are considering going back to what some consider an archaic execution method because of a ...

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