Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The firing squad chair in which Brad Sigmon will be strapped before three volunteers shoot him dead. South Carolina Department of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, seen here in 2011, houses male death row inmates. - Patrick Semansky/AP/File A death ...

Executions in the US are becoming increasingly cruel, with states adopting new methods such as nitrogen hypoxia and lethal ...

The Supreme Court is listening to a proposal to give convicts on death row an option of choosing lethal injection as an alternative to death by hanging as a mode of execution. On Wednesday, the top ...

A South Carolina man on death row for two separate murders in 2005 has opted to die by lethal injection. Stephen Christopher Stanko, who wrote a book about his experiences in prison following an ...

South Carolina uses two, massive five-gram doses of pentobarbital to execute death row inmates who choose lethal injection. Long hinted at in autopsies, court filings and by attorneys representing the ...

In the gruesome landscape of state-sanctioned murder in the US, the construction of a remote-controlled firing squad chamber ...

When it comes to administering the death penalty, perhaps the most intractable difficulty is that it’s just really, really difficult to kill someone in a way that isn’t cruel or unusual or messy or ...

A death row inmate in Louisiana who is scheduled to become the first person in the state to be executed using nitrogen gas has asked for his capital punishment to be carried out using a more “humane” ...