Now, the first prisoner to be executed in South Carolina in a decade has the option to choose firing squad as the method of death.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and his brother killed three people and injured 264 others in their 2013 terrorist attack.

While Cox had long been considered a suspect in the disappearance of his sister-in-law, Felicia Cox, he admitted to her murder, too.

A month after the U.S. left Afghanistan, public hangings and amputations are back as the Taliban enacts Sharia law.

The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals scheduled the executions to occur once a month from October through March, with two in January.

Dylann Roof tried to escape the death penalty for his vile crime. A court has rejected his efforts. But he still might not be executed.

A Texas inmate was executed for an attack that killed his pregnant wife, 5-year-old daughter and father-in-law.

Due to a shortage of lethal injection drugs, the state is looking toward execution methods that anti-death penalty have derided as 'cruel.'

Texas executed a man convicted of beating his 83-year-old great-aunt to death with a bat in 1999.

'We know that this crisis at the border is not a Democratic or Republican problem,' Sinema said Thursday about her new bill.