Only a handful of prisoners are executed each year; the number of in-custody suicides and homicides the state allows to ...
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — On a 1989 audio recording crackling with static, an inmate is barely audible as he offers his last words before he is executed in Virginia’s ...
A federal judge Tuesday threatened officials from the Alabama Department of Corrections and the state Attorney General’s ...
The U.S. Department of Justice is reintroducing firing squads, electrocution, and other methods for federal executions. This policy change follows a day-one executive order from President Donald Trump ...
SALT LAKE CITY — Nearly 16 years after Ronnie Lee Gardner was executed by firing squad in Utah, his brother still has nightmares about it. "I've had nightmares over this. I've had nightmares of ...