Attorneys appealed to the Tennessee governor to pause all executions until next year to allow for courts to review a new ...

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A firing squad has executed a South Carolina man who killed an off-duty police officer decades ago. It is the second time the ...

A federal judge will hear arguments Tuesday morning in a lawsuit brought by three news organizations that say Idaho prison ...

After 15 years without a single firing squad execution in the US, Mikal Mahdi is set to become the second in two months.

There is a call for Tennessee Governor Bill Lee to pause executions until a judge reviews the state's new lethal injection ...

Darren Harris posed as a customer in Gary Lewis’s vinyl store before waiting until his back was turned and stabbing him in ...

Attorneys for Tennessee death row men Oscar Smith and Byron Black are calling on Governor Bill Lee to issue a temporary halt ...

A Florida death row inmate is scheduled to be killed by lethal injection on Tuesday after a failed appeal citing concerns ...

Mikal Mahdi’s execution came about a month after the first person in state history was killed in such a manner. Before that, ...

The choice to die by firing squad – rather than lethal injection or the electric chair – was Mahdi’s own, his attorney said last month: “Faced with barbaric and inhumane choices ...