Correction officials confirmed Westville can accommodate firing squad executions as lawmakers, governor and the U.S. Justice Department push for changes to protocols

Alabama is seeking to execute a man with lethal injection hours after his nitrogen execution was prevented from going forward.

Andrew Richard Lukehart, 53, was sentenced to death after being convicted of first-degree murder and aggravated child abuse in 1997.

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The state of Alabama isn’t giving up trying to execute Jeffery Lee, even after the Supreme Court upheld a ruling barring the state from gassing him on Thursday night. Less than 24 hours after the Supreme Court upheld a ruling calling the state’s nitrogen method “likely unconstitutional” and canceling Lee’s nitrogen gas execution,

Tennessee has called off the execution of a death row inmate convicted of triple murder after his executioners failed to insert a backup intravenous line, prompting the governor to grant a one-year reprieve, the state's correction department told USA TODAY.

Louisiana has resumed executions using a novel nitrogen gas method — a legacy, in part, of problems getting the drugs used for lethal injections. But the injection method remains on the books in the Pelican State. As the death penalty continues to make ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina death row inmate Stephen Stanko on Friday chose to die by lethal injection after his lawyers said he was troubled by what appeared to be a lingering death of the last person in the state who was killed by a firing squad.

James Broadnax had just been pronounced dead after receiving the lethal injection at a prison in Huntsville, Texas, on April 30. Tiana, having flown over from London, watched through the glass screen for 40 minutes as the poison killed him.

Lethal injection was meant to be humane. The reality is bloody and brutal.