Arizona's Senate passed a measure that would allow voters to decide on firing squad executions, a method proponents call humane.

One year ago, Louisiana broke a fifteen-year silence on executions by debuting nitrogen hypoxia. Officials called Jessie Hoffman Jr.’s death “flawless,” yet their own reports noted “convulsive ...

Before Thursday, no execution had ever been carried out in the U.S. using the method, and experts have repeatedly warned that nitrogen toxicity may cause the condemned person to suffer unnecessarily ...

In 2001, Brad Sigmon was convicted of murdering his ex-girlfriend’s parents. Two decades later, his death sentence was carried out — and he chose an execution method considered one of the most ...

While the man who killed Doug Battle got a life sentence, one of his accomplices is about to be executed even though he wasn't in the building.

Florida’s rules for animal euthanasia, created in the 1990s, span a full page. Its guidance for executions by lethal injection, drawn up almost a decade later, takes up just two sentences. The ...