Death Penalty
Execution by nitrogen hypoxia has never been implemented, though Kenneth Eugene Smith, 58, originally requested it before his failed lethal injection.
GOP presidential frontrunners Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis want to execute more people. Will Biden end the federal death penalty before they have the chance?
âToday marks another sad chapter of Americaâs perverse fascination with state-sanctioned homicide,â Tisiusâ legal team wrote in a statement.
The Florida Republican pitched the idea after a school shooting Wednesday in which police immediately killed the perpetrator.
WHAT'S HAPPENING
Idaho is the latest state to turn to older methods of capital punishment amid a nationwide shortage of lethal-injection drugs.
A new bill from "pro-life" Republicans could make abortion a crime punishable by death.
How Harris County, Texas, the execution capital of the country, sends poor people to death row.
"I know I hurt people when I was young. I really messed up," said Donald Dillbeck, who was sentenced to death by a non-unanimous jury. "But I know Ron DeSantis has done a lot worse."
Jurors in John Montenegro Cruz's case were wrongly told the only way to ensure heâd never be freed was to sentence him to death.
Texas has executed an inmate convicted of killing three teenagers while they slept in a Texas Panhandle home more than 25 years ago.