One year ago, Louisiana broke a fifteen-year silence on executions by debuting nitrogen hypoxia. Officials called Jessie Hoffman Jr.’s death “flawless,” yet their own reports noted “convulsive ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Until the past 18 months, death row inmates in the United States were executed with mostly one method in modern history: lethal ...

Arizona's Senate passed a measure that would allow voters to decide on firing squad executions, a method proponents call ...

Throughout history, states have used five different execution methods: lethal injection, electrocution, lethal gas, firing squad and hanging. Lethal injection is the preferred method, but it is not ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. After Alabama carried out the country's first known execution by nitrogen gas last year, the state's attorney general delivered a ...

EXECUTIONS HERE IN LOUISIANA, SEVERAL METHODS HAVE BEEN USED OVER THE YEARS. SO EARLY ON DURING OUR EARLY STATEHOOD AND COLONIAL PERIOD, HANGING WAS THE PRIMARY METHOD. IT WAS A PUBLIC SPECTACLE TO ...

While many countries have abolished capital punishment, a number still carry out executions using methods that can seem archaic, unsettling, or deeply unusual by modern standards. These practices are ...

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 ...

Picture of the Florida State Capitol taken from South Monroe Street. HOUSTON – Louisiana is set this week to execute a man by nitrogen gas, the first execution in the state in 15 years. Jessie Hoffman ...

Until the past 18 months, death row inmates in the United States were executed with mostly one method in modern history: lethal injection. It's a unique situation globally. While many nations are ...