After years studying errors in death penalty cases, Columbia University law professor James Liebman wondered whether he could prove someone had been executed for a crime they didn’t commit. To test ...

One year ago, Louisiana broke a fifteen-year silence on executions by debuting nitrogen hypoxia. Officials called Jessie Hoffman Jr.’s death “flawless,” yet their own reports noted “convulsive ...

Until the past 18 months, death row inmates in the United States were executed with mostly one method in modern history: lethal injection. It's a unique situation globally. While many nations are ...

The Arizona Senate passed a measure that would let voters decide whether to allow firing squads as a death penalty option. The proposal comes after a history of problematic executions in the state ...

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For nearly two decades, legal challenges have blocked the death penalty in North Carolina from being carried out. Now, Republican lawmakers who want to lift the state’s de-facto moratorium on capital ...

LAS VEGAS (KTNV) — A new book is looking at the death penalty in America through the eyes of a Nevada inmate. The Volunteer, which is on sale now, focuses on the story of Scott Dozier. In 2002, Dozier ...

Tennessee will hold one of its first executions in years on May 22. It has been five years since the state held an execution and now four people are set to be executed in Tennessee before the end of ...

Mississippi allows execution by firing squad, but has never used this method. Richard Jordan, Mississippi's longest-serving death row inmate, is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection.