Firing squads have a long and storied history in the U.S. They've served as a punishment for mutiny in colonial times, a way ...

The Tennessee Supreme Court has set new execution dates for four inmates after a nearly three-year pause. The temporary ...

His attorneys argued that there is an “unconscionable risk” he’ll be executed because of a neurological disorder rather than ...

South Carolina is preparing this week to execute a man by firing squad, a capital punishment method that hasn’t been used in ...

Brad Sigmon, 67, has opted not to die by electrocution or lethal injection in his planned March 7 execution. The last firing ...

Convicted murderer George John Hanson is transferred back to Oklahoma from Louisiana for death sentence execution.

Convicted murderer John Fitzgerald Hanson was returned to Oklahoma Saturday from a federal prison in Louisiana to face ...

The Tennessee Supreme Court set execution dates for Oscar Smith, Byron Black, Donald Middlebrooks and Harold Nichols.

Defendants attorneys lodged three motions to bar the death penalty from being imposed. A judge rejected their arguments in ...

According to a government survey in Japan, over 80 per cent of Japanese people support the death penalty, stating that the ...