Harold Wayne Nichols previously chose the electric chair in 2020 before the pandemic stopped executions.

Tennessee's method of killing death row inmates comes into sharp focus Tuesday, with Christa Gail Pike facing an execution ...

Tennessee, Alabama and Oklahoma are all scheduled to carry out lethal injections on Thursday, marking the first time in nearly 16 years that three people are set to be put to death on the same day in ...

Alabama plans to carry out its first execution of 2026 on Thursday evening, putting Jeremy Williams to death by lethal injection for the rape and murder of a 5-year-old girl in 2021. The execution is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A gurney in Texas. Two convicted killers were executed by lethal injection Thursday morning in Tennessee and Oklahoma, while ...

Alabama is seeking to execute a man with lethal injection hours after his nitrogen execution was prevented from going forward. The Alabama Attorney General’s office asked the Alabama Supreme ...

Three men in Tennessee, Alabama and Oklahoma are scheduled for lethal injection Thursday in a rare convergence of executions on the same day in the U.S.

AUBURN, Ala. (WTVM) - Jeremy Williams, the man convicted of the rape and murder of 5-year-old Kamari Holland, is scheduled to be executed Thursday night, making him the first person executed in ...

Alabama's plans to execute a death row inmate using nitrogen gas appeared to be thwarted Tuesday by a federal judge permanently blocking the state from using that method, declaring it violates the ...

A claim (archived) circulated online in June 2026 that, starting July 1, Idaho would use the firing squad as its primary method of execution for death-row prisoners. One Facebook user wrote, "Idaho is ...

Responding to a lawsuit by an Alabama death row inmate, a federal appeals court says the state’s use of nitrogen gas to put people to death needs more study to determine whether it violates a ...