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 ...

Alabama was temporarily barred from executing death row inmate Jeffery Lee by nitrogen hypoxia in June 2026 after he ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rep. Jim Lucas, R-Seymour, listens to a bill on March 31, 2025. (Photo by Whitney Downard/Indiana Capital Chronicle) After an ...

Responding to a lawsuit by an Alabama death row inmate, a federal appeals court says the state’s use of nitrogen gas to put people to death needs more study to determine whether it violates a ...

US President Donald Trump's administration has announced it plans to add firing squads, electrocution and gas asphyxiation as alternative methods of executing people convicted of the gravest federal ...

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 ...

Lawsuits often lead states to switch execution methods Hanging was the primary method of execution around the world for centuries, said Denno, and that didn't change in the U.S. until lawmakers became ...

Alabama's plans to execute a death row inmate using nitrogen gas appeared to be thwarted Tuesday by a federal judge permanently blocking the state from using that method, declaring it violates the ...

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 ...