While browsing through some photos I took at the Dallas Market a couple of months ago, I came across a few gingerbread ...

Gov. Jeff Landry signed a new law last year that shrouds more aspects of capital punishment in Louisiana in secrecy. The state is expected to use nitrogen for the first time to put Jessie ...

The other states with scheduled executions this year are Ohio, Tennessee and Texas, though Ohio's governor has been routinely postponing the actions as their dates near. The most recent U.S ...

It did not elaborate on the decision in a brief three-page order. Texas has two other executions scheduled this year. Texas uses lethal injection — Pentobarbital — to carry out death sentences ...

The ensuing chaos prompted calls from advocates and lawyers for an official moratorium on executions — which the governor eventually imposed — and an official review of the secretive ...

Robin Maher, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center, told Newsweek that the numbers don't necessarily indicate that executions are on the rise. "Given the executions that we ...

During firing squad executions, an inmate is typically bound to a chair while a group of shooters open fire from a distance, aiming at the incarcerated person's heart. Sigmon wore a black jumpsuit ...

As Alawite militias clashed with HTS fighters late last week, other members of HTS mercilessly rampaged through Alawite territories, conducting summary executions, maiming and tormenting civilian ...

Now 37, he has been on death row since 2017. Singapore liberally dispenses death – there were nine executions last year, at least one this year, and about 50 are on the waiting list. Most are ...

Survivors have shared harrowing accounts of the violence, describing scenes of mass executions and widespread destruction. "We hid in the bathroom for hours. When we finally ran, the streets were ...

"The outrage we feel toward these execution methods is a reminder that, over time, the system of capital punishment has become all the more deceptive to make executions appear more palatable ...