A controversial new rule in Idaho will allow volunteers to shoot and kill death row inmates. The state has become the first ...

Idaho has made history by becoming the first state in America to adopt a controversial execution method as its primary form ...

The state will still allow lethal injection for death-row prisoners if it's not possible to use the firing squad.

Responding to a lawsuit by an Alabama death row inmate, a federal appeals court says the state’s use of nitrogen gas to put people to death needs more study to determine whether it violates a ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — A federal judge on Tuesday permanently blocked Alabama from executing an inmate with nitrogen gas after declaring the method violates the ban on cruel and unusual punishment. U.S.

Alabama's relatively new nitrogen gas execution method could inflict a cruel amount of pain and suffering on a death row inmate who says that he'd rather be killed by a firing squad, a federal appeals ...