Four people are now set for execution in 2025 after years of Tennessee pausing its execution process for death penalty cases.

Unless the governor or the U.S. Supreme Court grants him a last-minute reprieve, Brad Sigmon, 67, will be the first person to ...

A three-person mixture of unknown DNA was found under a 21-year-old University of Idaho student’s fingernails after she and three other students were killed at an off-campus home in November 2022, a ...

A South Carolina inmate is set to die by firing squad Friday, a rare execution method in the United States that experts say more places may turn to.

If Sigmon's execution moves forward, he will become the first inmate in South Carolina executed by firing squad in modern ...

Louisiana is scheduled to execute a man with nitrogen gas on March 18. Arkansas lawmakers are seeking to introduce nitrogen ...

Firing squads have a long and storied history in the U.S. They've served as a punishment for mutiny in colonial times, a way ...

Bryan Kohberger's defense argues that death penalty should be taken off the table for potential sentencing on the basis of his autism diagnosis.

Efforts to end the death penalty in Ohio have gained more support from lawmakers on both sides of the aisle in recent years.

Georgia executed Willie James Pye, whose IQ was low enough to indicate that he was intellectually disabled, according to his ...

His attorneys argued that there is an “unconscionable risk” he’ll be executed because of a neurological disorder rather than ...