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 ...

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.

How Trump could implement his death penalty agenda - Trump campaigned heavily on expanding the death penalty and has asked ...

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

The Representative who introduced the bill, Bruce Skaug, said it is "less problematic" than execution by legal drugs.

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.