According to a new Pew Research poll, 66% of Americans said they either “strongly favor” (30%) or “somewhat favor” (36%) the ...

Supporters of the method say it’s foolproof – but forensic experts say it can be ‘excruciating’ amid allegations it has been intentionally botched ...

The Trump administration has moved to broaden federal execution methods to include firing squads, electrocution, and gas asphyxiation, citing drug shortages and a need to expedite capital punishment.

Idaho will use firing squads as its primary method of capital punishment, the first state in the United States to officially do so, starting July 1. Four other states – South Carolina, Utah, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Abraham Bonowitz, of the group Death Penalty Action, leads a demonstration outside the Capitol in Montgomery, Ala., on Monday, ...

Three executions are scheduled for the same day in Tennessee, Alabama and Oklahoma, putting renewed focus on how the US uses capital punishment and on unresolve ...

Professor Austin Sarat posits that President Donald Trump’s efforts to expand the federal death penalty and apply it to drug ...

Pope Leo XIV sent a message of support to participants at a Catholic university event marking 15 years since the abolition of the death penalty in his home state of Illinois. On the same day, the ...

Responding to a lawsuit by an Alabama death row inmate, a federal appeals court says the state’s use of nitrogen gas to put people to death needs more study to determine whether it violates a ...

Monday's ruling marks the latest potential shift in the United States' ever-evolving use of capital punishment. States with the death penalty have a variety of execution methods on the books, ...

Alabama's plans to execute a death row inmate using nitrogen gas appeared to be thwarted Tuesday by a federal judge permanently blocking the state from using that method, declaring it violates the ...