Until the past 18 months, death row inmates in the United States were executed with mostly one method in modern history: lethal injection. It's a unique situation globally. While many nations are ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Next month, the state of Florida will officially be allowed to use new means of executing prisoners on death row — with some caveats. That’s because of a state law (HB 903) that’s ...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed a bill expanding execution methods beyond electrocution and lethal injection to include any method "not deemed unconstitutional." This change comes amid a surge in ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Gov. Mike Braun said state lawmakers should take a deeper look at how the state carries out executions. The governor’s comments came Tuesday, 12 days after Indiana executed ...

WASHINGTON (States Newsroom) — States are moving in sharply different directions on the death penalty, with some looking to broaden when and how executions occur while others try to scale them back or ...

Editor's note: This is the latest edition of Curious Mississippi, a service to the readers of the Clarion Ledger. Other questions answered by Curious Mississippi have surrounded recycling, potholes, ...

The Supreme Court is listening to a proposal to give convicts on death row an option of choosing lethal injection as an alternative to death by hanging as a mode of execution. On Wednesday, the top ...

In response to the August murder of 23-year-old Iryna Zarutska in Charlotte, House Bill 307, later titled “Iryna’s Law,” was proposed in the state legislature and became law less than two weeks later.

Following two state executions of death row inmates in less than six months, Gov. Mike Braun said June 3 that Indiana does not have any more of the drug used and he does not "intend to put another one ...

Recent executions have depleted the state's supply of pentobarbital, prompting discussions about alternative execution methods and the future of capital punishment in Indiana. A bill to abolish the ...

Michael Bernard Bell is scheduled to be executed on July 15, 2025, in Florida. This will be Florida's eighth execution this year, tying the record set in 1984 and 2014. A new law allows firing squads, ...