A claim (archived) circulated online in June 2026 that, starting July 1, Idaho would use the firing squad as its primary method of execution for death-row prisoners. One Facebook user wrote, "Idaho is ...

Alabama’s first scheduled execution of 2026 was halted on June 11. The U.S. Supreme Court allowed a lower court ruling to stand, blocking the state from using nitrogen gas to execute death row inmate ...

Type to search articles, cases, and authors. Press ↵ to view all results. Updated on June 11 at 9:28 p.m. Alabama came to the Supreme Court on Thursday morning, asking the justices to allow the ...

BOISE, Idaho — Idaho prison officials have outlined detailed rules and training requirements for carrying out executions by firing squad, which will become the state’s main form of execution beginning ...

In lethal gas executions, a condemned person is typically strapped to a chair or gurney in an airtight chamber before it is filled with a lethal gas. A mask is placed over the prisoner's face and ...

A death row prisoner whose planned execution Thursday was suddenly halted became emotional when he learned that a federal court had ruled Alabama’s use of nitrogen gas violates the constitutional ban ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A federal judge on Tuesday permanently blocked Alabama from executing an inmate with nitrogen gas after declaring the method violates the U.S. Constitution’s ban on cruel and ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — A federal judge on Tuesday permanently blocked Alabama from executing an inmate with nitrogen gas after declaring the method violates the ban on cruel and unusual punishment.

The Islamic Republic of Iran has accelerated its executions of dissidents and activists, with the true number of victims likely obscured by the regime’s internet censorship and blackout. Ever since ...

Alabama's relatively new nitrogen gas execution method could inflict a cruel amount of pain and suffering on a death row inmate who says he'd rather be killed by a firing squad, a federal appeals ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Iranian Chief Justice Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Ejei attends a meeting of the heads of the three branches of government in Tehran.

Ms. DeLiberato has represented defendants in death penalty cases for nearly 20 years. Last month, I walked into Riverbend Maximum Security Institution to watch the State of Tennessee kill my client, ...