The number of people killed in state-sanctioned executions worldwide rose to a 44-year high in 2025, according to a new ...

Tennessee’s governor granted a one-year stay of execution for Tony Carruthers after his lethal injection was halted Thursday ...

Tony Carruthers, convicted in connection with three 1994 murders, was scheduled to be executed Thursday morning.

Florida accounted for nearly half of US executions in 2025, according to Amnesty International’s new annual report on the ...

The Justice Department is bringing back firing squads and other execution methods for federal death row inmates. Could Florida do the same?

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has directed federal prisons to expand the range of methods used for executions to include firing squads, gas asphyxiation and electrocution. In a 48-page memo ...

America is returning to firing squad executions after failing to find a more humane way to carry out the death penalty.

It has varied over the decades, as public opinion sways for and against it. Hangings were frequent in colonial times, but by the mid-1800s some states had abolished the death penalty altogether. In ...