Idaho will use firing squads as its primary method of capital punishment, the first state in the United States to officially ...

A federal judge on Tuesday permanently blocked Alabama from executing an inmate with nitrogen gas after declaring the method ...

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

The Supreme Court is weighing Alabama’s nitrogen execution after a judge ruled the method unconstitutional.

A controversial new rule in Idaho will allow volunteers to shoot and kill death row inmates. The state has become the first ...

From lethal injection to nitrogen gas, here’s a look at the execution methods allowed under Alabama law.

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.

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 ...