No. South Dakota used hanging and the electric chair before its first lethal injection execution in 2007. The state adopted ...

South Carolina uses two, massive five-gram doses of pentobarbital to execute death row inmates who choose lethal injection. Long hinted at in autopsies, court filings and by attorneys representing the ...

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 ...

Idaho’s stockpile of execution drugs, which is housed at the Idaho state prison complex south of Boise, has cost taxpayers $200,000 over the past two years. All of the hard-to-find chemicals have ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP/WCSC) - The next South Carolina death row inmate set to be executed has selected lethal injection as the method after his lawyers said he was troubled by the last execution by ...

Lethal injection is tainted with error, ineptitude and secrecy that's led to many botched executions and unnecessary suffering. Missouri passed a law shielding the identity of the people involved in ...

Mississippi allows execution by firing squad, but has never used this method. Richard Jordan, Mississippi's longest-serving death row inmate, is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection.

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — A federal judge Wednesday refused to stop the execution of a South Carolina inmate scheduled to die in two days, saying the prisoner's lawyers didn't have evidence there were ...

A bill allowing for firing squad executions for death penalty inmates was filed in the Indiana legislature for the 2026 session. Senate Bill 11, filed by State Sen. Michael Young, would allow for ...

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 ...

“He started a movement down there in Houston… hopefully it’ll expand through his legacy." Read full article: Friends remember 33-year-old killed in Paradise City shooting as ‘life of the party’ in ...