Louisiana used nitrogen gas to put a man to death Tuesday evening for a killing decades ago, marking the first time the state has used the method as it resumed executions after a 15-year hiatus.

Indiana lawmakers tried to pass legislation that would allow the state to execute people using nitrogen gas or a firing squad. What's Undetermined: The legislation failed to pass. If it had become law ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Alabama has scheduled a March execution date for a man sentenced to death for a fatal shooting during a 1991 robbery even though ...

Louisiana's infamous electric chair — dubbed by death row inmates as “Gruesome Gertie” — was last used for an execution in 1991, when the state moved to lethal injections as the sole method to carry ...

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

Americans on the verge of execution could be again asking for a blindfold and cigarette soon. With the Justice Department rejiggering its death codes, lethal injections could give way to firing squads ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The state of Alabama ...

Alabama has scheduled a March execution date for a man sentenced to death for a fatal shooting during a 1991 robbery even though he didn't pull the trigger. Gov. Kay Ivey on Thursday set a March 12 ...

Indiana lawmakers tried to pass legislation that would allow the state to execute people using nitrogen gas or a firing squad. What's Undetermined The legislation failed to pass. If it had become law, ...