Are firing squad executions legal in the U.S.? Here's what to know after Trump approved a military firing-squad execution for Nidal Malik Hasan.

Christa Pike survived two lethal injection doses and has been in hospital since last week.

Women make up about 1 percent of US executions. How do states put people to death, and why is it contested?

Experts say methods such as lethal injection promise a more humane form of execution but are frequently marred by mishap ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama is set to execute a man Thursday night via lethal injection, three months after a judge’s ruling blocked the state from putting him to death with nitrogen gas. Jeffery ...

Tennessee’s unsuccessful attempt to end the life of Christa Pike with a lethal injection is spurring debate over capital punishment techniques, and whether the death penalty should exist at all.

The botched execution of death row inmate Christa Pike in Tennessee has revived public debate over the use and the methods of the death penalty in the United States. Pike, 50, was intubated, on a ...

On Sept. 30, Christa Pike became the first known person to survive a lethal injection. While lethal injection is the most common execution method in the U.S., it has historically recorded the highest ...

President Trump has approved the military execution by firing squad for former Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan. Florida has seen a significant increase in executions under Gov. Ron DeSantis and has ...

Alabama executed a man by lethal injection on Thursday for a 1998 double murder, three months after a judge’s ruling blocked the state from putting him to death with nitrogen gas. Jeffery Lee, 49, was ...

Republican leaders in Tennessee’s legislature say they will investigate the reliability of lethal injection as an execution method after the state failed to execute two death row inmates in the span ...