Seeing some images of olden times may seem somewhat cartoonish. Because these events happened a long time ago, they can ...

Utah prosecutors are pushing for the death penalty for Tyler Robinson, charged with murdering political activist Charlie Kirk ...

On the day Charlie Kirk was slain, Utah Gov. Spencer Cox began talking about the death penalty for his alleged killer. Here's what that could mean.

It has been five years since the state held an execution and now four people are set to be executed in Tennessee before the end of the year. With the first being Oscar Franklin Smith. Smith, 75, is ...

Until the past 18 months, death row inmates in the United States were executed with mostly one method in modern history: lethal injection. Now, depending on where they're imprisoned, inmates have a ...

Louisiana's infamous electric chair — dubbed by death row inmates as “Gruesome Gertie” — was last used for an execution in 1991, when the state moved to lethal injections as the sole method to carry ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama has scheduled an October execution by nitrogen gas for an inmate who has an ongoing lawsuit challenging the new method as unconstitutionally cruel. Alabama Gov. Kay ...

In an acknowledgement of the brutality of shooting someone to death as an execution method, state officials admitted that ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama has scheduled a September execution by nitrogen gas for a man convicted of killing a convenience store clerk during a 1997 robbery. Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey set a Sept. 25 ...