

South Carolina’s legislators voted to reinstate using firing squads in addition to electrocution and lethal injections. There has been a

A recent study indicates that the numbers of executions in the United States have decreased and are lower in 2016

Gov. Terry McAuliffe amended a state bill in an attempt to save lethal injection as the preferred method of capital

Death penalty for convicted Boston Bomber Dzhokar Tsarnaev is not guaranteed. Despite a federal jury on Friday, May 15 condemning the

Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was found guilty on all 30 counts and has now been sentenced to death by

As it becomes harder to obtain the drugs used in the lethal injection death penalty, states have begun finding other

Massachusetts has dealt with witches, anarchists, Quakers, pirates and gangsters in high profile executions. Massachusetts hanged 26 people for practicing

Pope Francis’ mission to modernize and reform the Roman Catholic Church may have been dealt a blow on Saturday, after