A bill filed in the Florida state Senate would expand the methods by which death row inmates could be executed. Senate Bill 1604, introduced by state Sen. Jonathan Martin, R-Fort Myers, aims to ...

The Louisiana Supreme Court on Friday recalled execution warrants that a judge had signed for two death row inmates who were each convicted of murder in Caddo Parish. The court ruled in favor of ...

Mahdi's execution came a little over a month after Brad Sigmon was put to death March 7, in the first U.S. firing squad death in 15 years and the fourth since 1976. The others all occurred in Utah.

FILE - This photo provided by the South Carolina Department of Corrections shows the state's death chamber in Columbia, S.C., including the electric chair, right, and a firing squad chair, left.

COLUMBIA — Three weeks after South Carolina conducted its first firing squad execution, another condemned inmate has chosen to die the same way. This puts the state on track to set a national ...

A South Carolina death row inmate on Friday chose execution by firing squad, just five weeks after the state carried out its first death by bullets. His attorney confirmed to CBS News that Mikal ...

(KTEN) — The execution date for convicted killer George John Hanson has been set for June 12. He will be put to death by lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester for the ...

Mahdi chose a firing squad over lethal injection or electrocution, as Brad Sigmon did for his March 7 execution, which was the first time the state had used the method. Just three other inmates in ...

The doctor accused of trying to push his wife off a scenic Hawaiian cliff and bashing her head with a rock when she refused to take a photo with him has now been charged with attempted murder ...