I want my closing statement to be one of love and a calling to my fellow Christians to help us end the death penalty,” Brad Kieth Sigmon wrote ahead of his execution.

Jessie Hoffman Jr., a Black man scheduled to be the first death row inmate executed by nitrogen gas, wants a more "humane" ...

Death by firing squad could become Idaho’s primary method of execution under a bill headed to the governor’s desk this week.

Peculiar and violent methods of execution seem to capture the public’s imagination in a way that the death penalty itself does not: A person may support capital punishment in theory but balk at the ...