Update at 8:19 p.m. ET. Execution Fails: According to reporters tweeting from inside the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester, Oklahoma, the execution of Clayton D. Lockett has failed. Lockett ...

The Justice Department will adopt firing squads as a permitted method of execution as the Trump administration moves to ramp ...

An Alabama inmate was executed by lethal injection on Thursday evening, the state's attorney general confirmed, marking the state's third execution this year. Keith Edmund Gavin, 64, was convicted on ...

A bungled execution in Oklahoma is providing death penalty opponents with a fresh example of how lethal injections can go wrong. But the odds of successfully challenging the nation’s main form of ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama corrections ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. - Almost a month ago, a firing squad on Friday executed a South Carolina man who killed an off-duty police officer, the second time the rare execution method has been used by the state ...

Myth 3: Every botched execution is one in which the inmate may have felt excruciating pain. Of the 28 "botched" lethal injections on the Death Penalty Information Center's list, the majority (15) ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. As fervently as some may support the death penalty by lethal injection, when the process becomes the ...