Idaho is one step closer to becoming the first state to use a firing squad as its primary execution method, months ahead of the start of college murder suspect Bryan Kohberger's trial. So far, only ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — In an effort to resume Louisiana’s death row executions that have been paused for 14 years, lawmakers on Friday advanced a bill that would add the use of nitrogen gas and ...

Alabama may become the first state to execute a prisoner by making him breathe pure nitrogen, a death penalty method that is authorized by three states but has never been used. The office of Alabama ...

I’LL SHOW YOU WHEN IN MY FULL FORECAST IN JUST A LITTLE BIT. BACK TO YOU. ALL RIGHT LUKE, THANKS. FOR THE FIRST TIME IN U.S. HISTORY, A STATE HAS KILLED A DEATH ROW INMATE BY NITROGEN GAS. IT’S A ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Bidding to resume Louisiana executions after a 14-year pause, the state’s Republican-dominated Legislature gave final passage to a bill Thursday to add electrocution and the ...

Louisiana used nitrogen gas to put a man to death Tuesday evening for a killing decades ago, marking the first time the state has used the method as it resumed executions after a 15-year hiatus.

As California moves forward Friday with a crucial public hearing to air its new lethal injection procedures, death penalty foes are taking aim at the details in a plan that could lead to the ...

On Jan. 25, the state of Alabama executed Kenneth Smith using nitrogen gas — a method never previously used anywhere in the world for an execution and that the American Veterinary Medical Association ...

States have always struggled to find humane ways to carry out the death penalty. For a generation, they have favored lethal injection, but that method has become increasingly problematic. It's coming ...