The Nigerian Correctional Service has disclosed that no fewer than 3,688 prisoners are on death row across its various ...
A Texas appeals court has halted the execution of a man who has spent more than 30 years on death row and had been set to die ...
Idaho will become the only state to fatally shoot death row inmates as its main execution method. Idaho Gov. Brad Little on ...
Gov. Brad Little signed a bill into law Wednesday to make Idaho the only U.S. state with a firing squad as its preferred option to end prisoners’ lives starting next year, amid lawmaker ...
The most recent U.S. execution took place Friday, when Brad Sigmon, 67, died by firing squad in South Carolina. Sigmon, who ...
Maintaining a system that risks killing the innocent along with the guilty is itself a crime — and one that underscores the need to do away with capital punishment.