Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Inmate Stephen Bryant has chosen to die by firing squad, the chair for which is pictured on the left. (Photo courtesy of the S.C.

Alabama recorded one of the most brutal and botched executions in the history of capital punishment. The death row inmate named John Louis Evans III was executed in an electric chair in 1983. He was ...

A Georgia judge on Monday ordered a temporary pause to a December execution that was already put on hold, saying questions about the state’s clemency process must be addressed before Stacey Humphreys’ ...

A Georgia board has halted the execution of a death row inmate who attacked two real estate agents at work, forced them to strip naked and shot them execution-style in 2003. Stacey Humphreys, 52, had ...

This Feb. 9, 2023, photo provided by the Oklahoma Department of Corrections shows Tremane Wood. [AP Photo/Oklahoma Department of Corrections ] Just hours before Tremane Wood was scheduled to die by ...

A 58-year-old Florida death row inmate claimed that prison officials used expired drugs and skimped on the doses for the last four executions in the state, according to a bombshell lawsuit filed a ...

It is known as America’s most violent prison. William C Holman, in Alabama, is even known by those who have experienced it as the “Slaughter Pen”. So what really goes on behind its doors, where death ...