Idaho Makes Firing Squad Primary Execution Method ...

The state will still allow lethal injection for death-row prisoners if it's not possible to use the firing squad.

Correction officials confirmed Westville can accommodate firing squad executions as lawmakers, governor and the U.S. Justice ...

A federal judge permanently blocked Alabama from using nitrogen gas for executions, ruling the method violates the ban on cruel and unusual punishment.

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 ...

After a week of legal volleyball, Alabama Death Row inmate Jeffery Lee’s execution — scheduled for Thursday evening — is on hold after federal courts called the state’s nitrogen gas execution method ...

The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the amount of time it takes an inmate to die with the nitrogen gas method is "intolerable." ...

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 ...