JACKSON, Miss. (AP) – Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood says he will ask legislators to set an alternative form of execution in case the state is blocked from doing lethal injections. He says that ...

INDIANAPOLIS — In October, Indiana is scheduled to execute Roy Lee Ward for raping and murdering 15-year-old Stacy Payne in 2001. Ward waited for Payne’s parents to leave their home for work on July ...

BOISE, Idaho — A bill establishing firing squads as Idaho’s primary method of execution has advanced to the Senate floor. On Wednesday, Senate Judiciary and Rules Committee members voted 6-3 to ...

The day after Alabama carried out the first-known US execution using nitrogen gas, its attorney general sent a clear message to death penalty states that might want to follow suit: “Alabama has done ...

Lawyers for a group of South Carolina death row inmates who have run out of appeals argued to the state's Supreme Court that two of the state's forms of execution — the old electric chair method and ...

Alabama’s new way of carrying out executions by nitrogen hypoxia is under review by a federal court as lawyers for a death row inmate try to establish that it causes unnecessary suffering. Lawyers for ...