Georgia, ruling that it was “capricious and arbitrary,” after three inmates sued the state due to ... have a loved one in prison, but to have a loved one on death row is that much worse.” ...

Gerald Powers, a Tennessee man who a judge sentenced to death 26 years ago, died Saturday on death row. He was 70. Powers' official cause of death is pending the medical examiner's report, a ...

If a corrections bill in the Florida Legislature passes, the state could see death row prisoners executed by firing squad or ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Bruce Ward, a convicted murderer who was the longest-serving inmate on Arkansas' death row, has died, the state Department of Corrections said. Ward was 68.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCSC/AP) - A firing squad executed a South Carolina inmate on Friday, the second time the state has carried ... all carried out in Utah. At 6 p.m. Friday, the curtain will open in the ...

A South Carolina death row inmate on Friday chose execution by firing squad, just five weeks after the state carried out its ... to a chair 15 feet from three prison employees who volunteered ...

Under the state's execution protocols, the firing squad will put a hood over Mahdi's head and shoot him in the heart ...

In the meantime, the State offered to provide discovery files ... Menzies has been on Utah’s death row for nearly four decades, convicted of the 1986 kidnapping and murder of Maurine Hunsaker ...

Last month, Brad Keith Sigmon became the first inmate ... Prison in Raiford. The executioner, a private citizen allowed to remain anonymous by state law, is paid $150 per execution. Men on death ...

Instead of the green prison ... state had used the method. Just three other inmates in the U.S. have faced a firing squad since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976 — all of them in Utah ...

South Carolina is legally required to keep some protocols secret as it prepares to put a man to death by firing squad for the ...

Attorneys for a South Carolina death row inmate whose ... sentenced to life in prison. After exhausting his appeals by 2010, Bixby's days were numbered. However, the state faced a shortage of ...