Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. State law permits the death penalty only in aggravated murder cases and mandates that prosecutors file a formal notice before the ...

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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On May 22, Oscar Smith, who was convicted of killing his wife and her two teenage sons, was executed in Tennessee by lethal ...

Oklahoma governor spares life of death row inmate just before scheduled lethal injection McALESTER, Okla. -- Oklahoma governor spares life of death row inmate just before scheduled lethal injection.

Louisiana has resumed executions using a novel nitrogen gas method — a legacy, in part, of problems getting the drugs used for lethal injections. But the injection method remains on the books in the ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A man convicted of killing his girlfriend and her two young daughters in the 1980s said he was “hurting so bad” while he was given a lethal injection Tuesday in Tennessee, ...