As South Carolina prepares to execute a man by firing squad on Friday, here are the ways each state conducts capital punishment.

A federal appeals court has tossed a Texas woman’s death sentence after it found that local prosecutors had failed to reveal that their primary trial witness was a paid informant ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A death row inmate in Louisiana who is scheduled to become the first person in the state to be executed using nitrogen gas has asked for his capital punishment to be carried ...

Louisiana Death Row Inmate Who Is Scheduled to Die by Nitrogen Hypoxia Challenges the Method BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A death row inmate in Louisiana who is scheduled to become the first person ...