Death by firing squad and medical-aid in dying, taking an oral solution of drugs mixed with apple juice, are alternative execution methods that would be more “humane,” Hoffman’s attorneys said.

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 out using a more ...

A wife has been saved from death row after a British professor stepped in to help with her case, making a major discovery about her trial for killing her husband. Brenda Andrew, 61, has been ...

Brad Sigmon, 67, chose to be killed by bullets, saying he feared the alternatives of the electric chair and lethal injection would risk a slower and more painful death. He was convicted of beating ...

As of Feb. 6, 2025, there were 174 people on death row in Texas, seven of whom are women, including Melissa Lucio who was convicted in 2008 of beating to death her 2-year-old daughter. In 2022 ...

The last words of a death row inmate who was the first in the US to be executed by firing squad in 15 years have been revealed. Brad Sigmon, 67, was shot by three prison guards at the Broad River ...

In a final statement read before his death, Sigmon said he wanted his "closing statement to be one of love and a calling to my fellow Christians to help us end the death penalty." "An eye for an ...

That’s not due to the obvious desire to dodge a state-sanctioned death entirely. Rather, the way the state has handled the matter has made it “impossible” for the prisoner “to assess which ...

South Carolina has 28 other inmates on death row, according to state records. CNN’s John Fritze, Shawn Nottingham and Jessica Jordan contributed to this report.

Reform UK also referred Rupert Lowe MP to the police on Friday over alleged “threats of physical violence” towards the party chairman Zia Yusuf and separate allegations of “workplace ...