Last year, a new execution method was used in the U.S. for the first time since 1982. Here’s a look at how people have been ...

Arizona voters may become the first in the nation to authorize executions by firing squad. If so, we also should be willing ...

Louisiana is set this week to execute a man by nitrogen gas, the first execution in the state in 15 years. Jessie Hoffman Jr., 46, is scheduled to die on Tuesday in Louisiana. He was convicted of the ...