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 ...

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Capital punishment remains legal throughout much of the United States. However, the form of execution does vary. These are several methods of execution that remain legal in the United States.

NOW. LOUISIANA EXECUTION CASE COULD END UP IN FRONT OF THE SUPREME COURT IF IT PLAYS OUT IN THE APPEALS PROCESS. THAT’S AFTER A FEDERAL JUDGE BLOCKED THE STATE FROM EXECUTING JESSE HOFFMAN BY NITROGEN ...

Alabama’s new way of carrying out executions by nitrogen hypoxia is under review by a federal court as lawyers for a death row inmate try to establish that it causes unnecessary suffering. Lawyers for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As Mississippi prepares to execute its longest-serving death row inmate, questions about how the state carries out capital ...

GENERAL LIZ MERAUX IS APPEALING TO THE FIFTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS, ASKING THEM TO LET THE STATE USE NITROGEN GAS TO EXECUTE DEATH ROW INMATE JESSE HOFFMAN NEXT WEEK. IT COMES AS HOFFMAN IS NOW ...

Eight inmates on Alabama’s Death Row have filed lawsuits challenging the state’s nitrogen execution method, calling it unconstitutional. The lawsuits, all filed separately, were each filed in federal ...

Before the Nazis sent him to a forced labor camp, young Leo Lewis’ grandmother paid him one last visit. “I will not be here when you come back,” she told the boy, who had voluntarily handed himself ...

INDIANAPOLIS — In October, Indiana is scheduled to execute Roy Lee Ward for raping and murdering 15-year-old Stacy Payne in 2001. Ward waited for Payne’s parents to leave their home for work on July ...