While capital punishment is rarely used in the U.S., other countries continue to carry out the method of final judgment. While typically reserved for the most extreme cases, some of these execution ...

Indiana lawmakers attempted to pass legislation that would allow the state execute people via gas chambers and firing squads. Indiana lawmakers tried to pass legislation that would allow the state to ...

The Supreme Court is listening to a proposal to give convicts on death row an option of choosing lethal injection as an alternative to death by hanging as a mode of execution. On Wednesday, the top ...

INDIANAPOLIS — A bill to add the firing squad as an execution method in Indiana failed in the House on Wednesday, falling three votes short of the required constitutional majority. The legislation ...

After an attempt to add firing squads to Indiana law stalled in the Senate, a House panel Wednesday passed a bill expanding the state’s execution methods. Firing squad and nitrogen hypoxia would be ...

A bill expanding Indiana’s execution methods was significantly amended Tuesday after lawmakers voted to remove nitrogen hypoxia as an option and added provisions on media access and mental health ...