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 ...

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.

South Carolina plans to execute Mikal Mahdi on Friday for the murder of a police officer, draping a hood over his head and firing three bullets into his heart. The choice to die by firing squad ...

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

Roy Lee Ward, 52, was sentenced to death in 2007 for the July 11, 2001, rape and murder of a 15-year-old girl in the southern ...

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

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 ...

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

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.) ...

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.) ...