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 ...

Type to search articles, cases, and authors. Press ↵ to view all results. We have reached the halfway point of June, meaning the justices have just over two weeks left to wrap up the current term if ...

A federal Alabama judge has prohibited the state from executing an inmate this week using the controversial new method of nitrogen gas, ruling that it amounts to cruel and unusual punishment in ...

Type to search articles, cases, and authors. Press ↵ to view all results. Updated on June 11 at 9:28 p.m. Alabama came to the Supreme Court on Thursday morning, asking the justices to allow the ...

After a week of legal volleyball, Alabama Death Row inmate Jeffery Lee’s execution — scheduled for Thursday evening — was called off after federal courts called the state’s nitrogen gas execution ...

Idaho will prioritize firing squad executions over lethal injection starting July 1. IDOC will recruit six POST‑certified law enforcement members for the firing squad team. Renovations to Idaho's ...

The United States Army is reportedly preparing contingency plans to carry out military executions for the first time in more than 50 years, according to an internal document reviewed by ABC News. The ...

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FILE - The gurney used for lethal injections sits behind glass windows in a small cinder block building at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson, Ga., Sept. 7, 2007. (Ben ...

Ms. DeLiberato has represented defendants in death penalty cases for nearly 20 years. Last month, I walked into Riverbend Maximum Security Institution to watch the State of Tennessee kill my client, ...

Dusty Ray Spencer is scheduled for execution on June 25 for the 1992 murder of his wife, Karen Spencer. The murder occurred after a history of domestic violence, including a prior attack with a steam ...