JACKSON, Miss. (AP) – Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood says he will ask legislators to set an alternative form of execution in case the state is blocked from doing lethal injections. He says that ...

Lawyers for a group of South Carolina death row inmates who have run out of appeals argued to the state's Supreme Court that two of the state's forms of execution — the old electric chair method and ...

In 2024, there were 25 people executed in the United States. In 2025, there have already been 44 executions, and three more ...

The possible execution of Margaret Nduta, 37, set for Monday in Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam, has sparked an online debate, with Kenyans pleading with the government to act swiftly and avert their ...

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Afghanistan’s Taliban authorities carried out a public execution at a stadium in the eastern city of ...

BOISE, Idaho — A bill establishing firing squads as Idaho’s primary method of execution has advanced to the Senate floor. On Wednesday, Senate Judiciary and Rules Committee members voted 6-3 to ...

INDIANAPOLIS — In October, Indiana is scheduled to execute Roy Lee Ward for raping and murdering 15-year-old Stacy Payne in 2001. Ward waited for Payne’s parents to leave their home for work on July ...

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 day after Alabama carried out the first-known US execution using nitrogen gas, its attorney general sent a clear message to death penalty states that might want to follow suit: “Alabama has done ...

NOW. LOUISIANA EXECUTION CASE COULD END UP IN FRONT OF THE SUPREME COURT IF IT PLAYS OUT IN THE APPEALS PROCESS. THAT’S AFTER A FEDERAL JUDGE BLOCKED THE STATE FROM EXECUTING JESSE HOFFMAN BY NITROGEN ...