A US state is set to bring in a grisly new method of execution that starves Death Row inmates of oxygen, but there are major flaws in the plan. Alabama wants prisoners facing the death penalty to ...

A Tennessee death row inmate on Thursday selected electrocution for his upcoming execution, a move that would make him the fourth person in the state to choose that method over lethal injection since ...

A death row inmate who was executed by a method only used five times in 50 years took his last breath on Friday (11 April). Mikal Mahdi was put on death row after claiming the lives of two people in ...

A prisoner on death row in Alabama could be executed next week using a new, untried method that deprives the body of oxygen. James Houts, a deputy state attorney general, told a federal judge that it ...

FILE - Death Row building at the Louisiana State Penitentiary Friday, Sept. 18, 2009, in Angola, La. (AP Photo/Judi Bottoni, File) BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A death row inmate in Louisiana who is ...

A man on death row is facing execution tonight by use of a controversial nitrogen gas which the same state has banned for killing pet cats and dogs. Jessie Hoffman was sentenced to death in 1996 at ...

A death row prisoner who was put to death on Friday (11 April) had a hearty selection of food for his final meal. Mikal Mahdi, 42, was sentenced to death after he was convicted of murdering two men ...