The last time such an execution took place was 15 years ago, in Utah. The South Carolina inmate chose the method because of his concerns about lethal injection, his lawyer said. By Eduardo Medina ...

Two men are set to be executed within an hour of each other in the U.S. on Thursday. Tabler's execution on Thursday comes 20 years after he went on a killing spree in the central Texas city of ...

Gov. Ron DeSantis signed Ford’s execution order earlier this year and set his execution for Thursday at 6 pm. His attorneys have challenged longstanding federal and state precedent in attempts ...

IT COMES JUST WEEKS BEFORE HIS SCHEDULED EXECUTION. WDSU REPORTER JASMINE FRANKLIN IS LIVE TRACKING NEW REACTION TONIGHT. JASMINE. ELIZABETH, LOUISIANA, HAS NOT HAD AN INMATE ON DEATH ROW EXECUTED ...

Condemned South Carolina inmate Brad Sigmon has chosen to die next month by a firing squad, a method of execution that has not been used in the US in 15 years. Sigmon is scheduled to die on March 7.

Cyclone Alfred, which weakened to a tropical low weather system on Saturday, seems to have spared the region the worst of its potential impact. However, hundreds of thousands of homes in south ...

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To carry out the execution, nitrogen hypoxia is administered to the inmate through a mask, causing suffocation. Alabama was the only U.S. state with a protocol for this use. Other states that have ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCIV) — The legal team for Brad Sigmon has filed a motion for a stay of execution Thursday and a petition for a writ of habeas corpus with the Supreme Court of South Carolina.

Several other people on death row had execution dates set before the governor paused executions in 2022, and it's unclear if the court may also reset their dates. Prison officials announced a new ...

Christopher Sepulvado, an 81-year-old Louisiana man who was scheduled to be executed, died Saturday night according to his lawyers, just days after a judge handed down an execution date.