Throughout history, states have used five different execution methods: lethal injection, electrocution, lethal gas, firing squad and hanging. Lethal injection is the preferred method, but it is not ...

This story has been updated to reflect a stay of execution for one of the death row inmates previously assigned a September execution date. Oscar Franklin Smith, a Tennessee death row inmate scheduled ...

The state Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that all of the state’s methods to execute inmates sentenced to death are constitutional. All five justices agreed in part with the ruling that allows ...

A South Carolina man on death row for two separate murders in 2005 has opted to die by lethal injection. Stephen Christopher Stanko, who wrote a book about his experiences in prison following an ...

Alabama has already tried once to execute Kenneth Smith. On the evening of Nov. 17, 2022, Smith lay on a gurney as workers tried for an hour to insert needles into the veins of his hand, arms and ...