Idaho is one step closer to becoming the first state to use a firing squad as its primary execution method, months ahead of the start of college murder suspect Bryan Kohberger's trial. So far, only ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — In an effort to resume Louisiana’s death row executions that have been paused for 14 years, lawmakers on Friday advanced a bill that would add the use of nitrogen gas and ...

Alabama may become the first state to execute a prisoner by making him breathe pure nitrogen, a death penalty method that is authorized by three states but has never been used. The office of Alabama ...

The Idaho House on Thursday widely approved a bill to make death by firing squad the main death penalty method in Idaho. If passed into law, Idaho could become the only state to have death by firing ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Bidding to resume Louisiana executions after a 14-year pause, the state’s Republican-dominated Legislature gave final passage to a bill Thursday to add electrocution and the ...

Gov. Jeff Landry will push lawmakers next month to expand methods the state can use to carry out the death penalty, sources say, as Landry seeks to restart executions following more than a decade in ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio House lawmakers have begun hearings on a controversial new execution method known as nitrogen hypoxia. The protocol, used in Alabama for the first time recently, subjects a ...

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