Journalist Jeffrey Collins has watched almost a dozen people executed in the US using three different methods and described being shot as the most 'violent' way to bow out ...

Sixteen men have died by court-ordered execution so far this year in the U.S., and 12 other people are scheduled to be put to ...

A South Carolina man who was twice sentenced to die for killing two people nearly two decades ago was scheduled Friday to be exe ...

A suspected serial killer once scrutinized for a possible link to the O.J. Simpson case that riveted the nation in the ...

Bree Derrick is now at the helm of Idaho’s prison system, stepping into a key leadership role as the department navigates ...

The May 2025 firing squad execution of Mikal Deen Mahdi in South Carolina was botched, resulting in a prolonged and painful death, and raising questions about the constitutionality of the method and ...

Last week, we learned another hard lesson about executions, namely that there is no foolproof way of killing someone.