Capital punishment remains legal throughout much of the United States. However, the form of execution does vary. These are ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Alabama plans to carry out its fifth execution of 2025 Thursday evening, putting Anthony Todd Boyd to death by nitrogen gas ...

ATMORE, Ala. -- An Alabama man convicted of helping to burn a man alive in 1993 over a $200 drug debt was executed by nitrogen gas on Thursday. Anthony Boyd, 54, was pronounced dead at 6:33 p.m. at ...

Summer Shockley with her father, Lance Shockley during a visit at Potosi Correctional Center, in 2024. Lance Shockley executed on Oct. 14, 2025, for the 2005 murder of a Missouri highway patrolman. Of ...

Tennessee death row inmate Harold Wayne Nichols on Monday declined to choose between the electric chair and lethal injection for his Dec. 11 execution, meaning the state will default to lethal ...

Georgia parole board pauses scheduled execution without explanation Lawyers challenge conflicts involving two parole board members Death warrant expires Dec. 24 unless a new one is issued JACKSON ...