A quick warning — today’s episode is about the death penalty and includes talk about recent executions and methods. Capital punishment is a priority of the Trump administration, with the Deep South at ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. HOUSTON (AP) — South Carolina is preparing ...

COLUMBIA — South Carolina’s death penalty is under review in a Richland County Circuit Court trial this week with attorneys representing four death-row inmates claiming that the state's capital ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A death row inmate in Louisiana who is scheduled to become the first person in the state to be executed using nitrogen gas has asked for his capital punishment to be carried ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, seen here in 2011, houses male death row inmates. - Patrick Semansky/AP/File A death ...

The state of Alabama tried to execute Kenneth Eugene Smith before and failed, so now they're trying something new. Similar botched executions have prompted the creation of a new method, yet another ...

HOUSTON (AP) — South Carolina is preparing this week to execute a man by firing squad, a capital punishment method that hasn’t been used in the U.S. in nearly 15 years. Since the Supreme Court lifted ...

A death row inmate in Louisiana who is scheduled to become the first person in the state to be executed using nitrogen gas has asked for his capital punishment to be carried out using a more “humane” ...