Alabama plans to execute Jeffery Lee with nitrogen gas in June for a double homicide committed during a 1998 pawn shop robbery, the state's governor has announced. Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey has set Lee's ...

Alabama has set a June execution by nitrogen gas for a man convicted of killing two people during a 1998 robbery of a pawn shop. Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey on Wednesday set a June 11 execution date ...

A billboard standing on Interstate 55 southbound as you cross the Tennessee state line and enter Mississippi from Memphis is ...

DeSoto County District Attorney Matthew Barton announced a new billboard campaign Thursday that reads, “WELCOME TO ...

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 ...

The Trump Justice Department said Friday it is seeking to expand the use of the death penalty in federal capital cases and add the firing squad, electrocution and gas to lethal injection as methods of ...

The Justice Department is also reauthorizing the use of single-drug lethal injections with pentobarbital that were used to ...

Florida executed Chadwick Willacy, 58, by lethal injection on Tuesday, April 21, at Florida State Prison near Starke for the horrific 1990 murder of his next-door neighbor, Marlys Sather. Willacy was ...