Amid growing concerns over the availability of lethal injection drugs, Florida lawmakers are advancing new legislation that ...

New state bills aim to expand options for death row inmates’ executions to include firing squads and nitrogen gas and allow ...

A bill could make firing squads and lethal gas options in Florida executions as a shortage of pentobarbital, used for lethal ...

A Florida death row inmate is set to become the fourth man executed in the U.S. this week and the 10th so far this year. Edward Thomas James, 63, is scheduled to die by lethal injection on ...

Mikal Mahdi, convicted of murdering an Orangeburg police officer, is scheduled to die on April 11; he's among 26 people awaiting execution ...

Louisiana is restarting death penalty executions next week for the first time in 15 years, using nitrogen gas to execute ...

While the men’s death warrants were signed before Donald Trump took office January 20, the state executioners and the US judiciary were certainly emboldened to see these executions through to ...

Recent executions using nitrogen gas and firing squads have sparked controversy over their potential cruelty. Florida allows executions by lethal injection or electrocution, with the inmate ...

When executions resumed, the State Supreme Court released a list of the first six men who would be executed. Brad Sigmon of Greenville was the fourth and most recent death row inmate executed.

Recent executions in South Carolina and Louisiana have sparked more debate amongst Americans. Does Florida use nitrogen gas or firing squads?