Between 2021 and 2023, 100% of all executions in the U.S. were done by lethal injection. In the last year and a half, 16% have involved other methods.

Death by firing squad has a long history in the United States. In the popular imagination, it is associated with the Wild West or the Civil War. But in modern times, the method of execution has ...

Next month, the state of Florida will officially be allowed to use new means of executing prisoners on death row — with some ...

Firing squad, electric chair, nitrogen gas, ... Of the 44 executions held in the United States since January 2024, seven have been conducted using a method other than lethal injection.

A Mississippi man who had been on death row for nearly 50 years was executed by lethal injection on Wednesday (Thursday ...

A court sentenced Ralph Leroy Menzies to death in 1988 for kidnapping, robbing and murdering Maurine Hunsaker, a married ...

The longest-serving death row inmate in Mississippi's history, Richard Jordan, was executed Wednesday evening at the ...

A federal judge doesn't plan to stop the execution of a South Carolina inmate in two days because the convicted man's lawyers didn’t have evidence of problems with the state’s lethal injection process ...

Those executions marked the first by firing squad in the United States since 2010 and only the fourth and fifth using that method in modern U.S. history. (The others were in Utah in 1977 and 1996.) ...

Richard Jordan, 79, was convicted in 1976 of the murder of Edwina Marter, the wife of a bank executive in the town of ...