Capital punishment remains legal throughout much of the United States. However, the form of execution does vary. These are ...

Indiana lawmakers are reconsidering the use of the firing squad as an alternative to lethal injection, amid concerns over cost, fairness and the risk of executing innocent people.

Arizona's botched executions have sparked a national debate over the use of lethal injections, with questions raised about the humanity of capital punishment and the need for alternative execution ...

By: Casey Smith Indiana Capital Chronicle For The Republic A bill expanding Indiana’s execution methods was significantly ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Alabama plans to carry out its fifth execution of 2025 Thursday evening, putting Anthony Todd Boyd to death by nitrogen gas ...

The South Carolina House voted Wednesday, May 5, to add a firing squad to the state’s execution methods amid a lack of lethal-injection drugs—a measure meant to jump-start executions in a state that ...

By: Casey Smith Indiana Capital Chronicle For The Republic INDIANAPOLIS — A bill to add the firing squad as an execution ...

Indiana lawmakers attempted to pass legislation that would allow the state execute people via gas chambers and firing squads. Indiana lawmakers tried to pass legislation that would allow the state to ...

Sen. Mike Young said the bill would provide the IDOC with an option if lethal injection drugs are unavailable. Those who ...

Photo of William M. Tucker. Senate and House Republicans unveiled legislation that their leaders previously signaled would surface when the General Assembly reconvened on Monday after nearly two ...

While capital punishment is rarely used in the U.S., other countries continue to carry out the method of final judgment. While typically reserved for the most extreme cases, some of these execution ...