While manufacturers of FDA-approved injectable pentobarbital are warning states not to use the sedative in executions, some ...

Shooting prisoners to death has consequences for the reputation of the state,” a national death penalty expert said.

A death-row inmate in Idaho suing over the state’s lethal injection protocol is entitled to discovery about where the execution drugs originated, how they were made, and when the state obtained them, ...

County Commissioner Brent Reinke oversaw two executions when he was IDOC director. "It's nothing to celebrate," Reinke said.

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Idaho Gov. Brad Little signed his name on a bill Wednesday making Idaho the only state in the U.S. to have a firing squad designated as the preferred execution method for capital punishment ...

South Carolina death row inmate Mikal Mahdi has chosen to be executed via firing squad just weeks after Brad Sigmon was ...

Mikal Mahdi was sentenced to death for the killing of James Myers, a South Carolina police officer, and burning his body.