Idaho will use firing squads as its primary method of capital punishment, the first state in the United States to officially ...

A failed execution in Tennessee left death row inmate Tony Carruthers bleeding and moaning, a witness says. Attorneys for other death row inmates say it raises 'profound concerns.' ...

The state will still allow lethal injection for death-row prisoners if it's not possible to use the firing squad.

Yet another Tennessee Republican lawmaker is pressuring Gov. Bill Lee’s administration for a full accounting of a botched ...

HOUSTON (AP) — A Texas man faces execution Thursday for killing his girlfriend’s 13-month-old daughter during a torturous ordeal the couple said was part of an “exorcism” to expel a demon from the ...

Eight Republican senators have sent Governor Bill Lee a letter calling for an independent review of the failed execution ...