Executions in the US are becoming increasingly cruel, with states adopting new methods such as nitrogen hypoxia and lethal ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Arizona State Sen. Kevin Payne has a very bad idea. Earlier this month, Payne introduced a proposal in the Arizona Senate to ask ...

Arizona's Senate passed a measure that would allow voters to decide on firing squad executions, a method proponents call humane.

An Alabama inmate was executed by lethal injection on Thursday evening, the state's attorney general confirmed, marking the state's third execution this year. Keith Edmund Gavin, 64, was convicted on ...

For the first time in more than 200 years, Tennessee is preparing to execute a woman on death row. Christa Gail Pike’s case is on everyone’s lips as they debate the legal and ethical concerns. Pike, ...

Alabama executed a man on Friday for the 2001 beating death of a woman as the state resumed lethal injections after two failed executions prompted the governor to order an internal review of ...

The murder that Christa Pike was convicted of demonstrated a brutality and callousness not often seen in women, let alone one ...

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