There is, of course, something odd about using the word dignity to describe what happens when the state kills one of its citizens.

An Australian man accused of murdering a Thai teenager may not be able to avoid the death penalty if found guilty, even if compensation is paid to the alleged victim’s family.

Federal prosecutors have unsealed an indictment charging five alleged members of the Venezuelan transnational gang Tren de ...

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

Tennessee's lethal injection protocol adopted a year and a half ago appears to include reduced training in IV placement. That ...

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

A controversial new rule in Idaho will allow volunteers to shoot and kill death row inmates. The state has become the first ...

An Indiana prison is being built to accommodate firing squad executions as the state works to pass a law allowing for that execution method, which legal experts say is further compounded by federal ...

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 decision affirms a lower court’s ruling nullifying Jimmie “Chris” Duncan’s 1998 first-degree murder conviction. Duncan ...