On the anniversary of a Supreme Court ruling reinstating the US death penalty, faith leaders, those affected by murder and ...

Eight death row inmates in Idaho will soon face a barrage of fatal bullets – after the state adopted the firing squad as its ...

Idaho will use firing squads as its primary method of capital punishment, the first state in the United States to officially ...

In most of the country, executions are a thing of the past. But one state has been carrying them out at a record pace.

The family of a Jasper man who was fatally shot by police during the execution of a no-knock search warrant has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the City of Jasper. The lawsuit was filed ...

In April 2026, Anthropic stated that Claude Mythos Preview could vastly outperform humans at finding vulnerabilities in ...

The state will still allow lethal injection for death-row prisoners if it's not possible to use the firing squad.

Oklahoma’s death row currently includes 21 inmates whose convictions span cases from 1992 through 2022. Oklahoma has executed 131 people since 1990, all by lethal injection. The state had a six-year ...

Now that the Supreme Court has let stand an injunction against Alabama’s use of nitrogen gas for executions of felons, ...

In Wilkerson v. Utah in 1878, the Supreme Court ruled that death by firing squad was not cruel and unusual punishment “ ...

Fifty years ago, Americans set out on a polarizing mission: to find a just and fair way to punish the worst of the worst crimes by execution. In some ways, this was a surprising choice. In 1972, a ...

(RNS) — At the heart of Alabama’s latest death penalty controversy is Jeffery Lee, who became a Christian mentor to other incarcerated men on death row. Opponents to Lee’s execution ask courts to ...