Steven Bryant is scheduled to die by firing squad this Friday. A California city hides its history, culture by mispronouncing its name | Opinion Appeals court declines to reinstate order finding ...

The death chamber inside of the Broad River Correctional Institution in Columbia, South Carolina, contains both the metal chair used in execution by firing squad, left, and the wooden electric chair, ...

The clerical regime’s obsession with executions has nothing to do with justice or public order. It is the final refuge of a dictatorship in its death throes. In 2023 alone, Iran executed 853 people, a ...

Editor's note: Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt granted clemency to convicted murderer Tremane Wood minutes before his execution was set to begin at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary on Thursday, Nov. 13. Read ...

A Utah man who was spared execution this fall after developing dementia during his 37 years on death row has died of apparent natural causes.

Eddie Slovik made a series of decisions that turned him into the only American soldier executed for desertion since the Civil War. He wrote and signed a confession admitting his crime. He refused five ...

A South Carolina man convicted of killing three people over five days more than 20 years ago was executed by a firing squad on Friday evening. Bryant chose to die by firing squad instead of lethal ...

Tennessee death row inmate Harold Wayne Nichols declined to choose between the electric chair and lethal injection before his Dec. 11 execution. Nichol declined to make his choice Nov. 10, a statement ...

New York City seems to finally be getting some financial support from the federal government when it comes to the continued influx of asylum seekers. On Friday, the Federal Emergency Management Agency ...