Idaho prison officials must allow media witnesses at executions to watch as lethal injection drugs are prepared and ...

A bill moving in the state House this week would reintroduce the electric chair and firing squads as part of the death ...

Defendant asked for ‘everything,’ and ‘everything’ is what he received,” the judge wrote. “Defendant cannot demand everything under the sun and then complain about the weight of all the planets.” ...

Idaho won’t be able to carry out the death penalty until prison officials increase witness access for executions.

On Tuesday, House Bill 270 moved to its next committee. The bill changes the go-to execution method from lethal injection to ...

North Carolina lawmakers will discuss a bill Tuesday that would give death row inmates the option to choose between three execution methods: lethal injection, electrocution, or firing squad.

Maryland’s Occupational Safety and Health agency (MOSH) has released its full report into the death of sanitation worker Ronald Silver, after FOX45 filed a form ...

A lawsuit filed on behalf of 21 inmates seeks to prevent them from being transferred to a notorious federal supermax prison ...

In a last-minute legal maneuver, attorneys for death row inmate Jeffrey Hutchinson filed a motion Wednesday with the Supreme Court of Florida seeking a stay of his scheduled execution. Hutchinson, who ...

When a military judge threw out a defendant’s confession in the Sept. 11 case this month, he gave two main reasons. The ...

While North Carolina hasn’t carried out an execution since 2006, the bill would legalize additional ways to carry out the ...

Indiana death row inmate Benjamin Ritchie's clemency hearings are set for the coming weeks as his legal team fights to delay ...