Throughout history, states have used five different execution methods: lethal injection, electrocution, lethal gas, firing squad and hanging. Lethal injection is the preferred method, but it is ...

He was the first person in the United States to be executed in that manner in more than 15 years. Lethal injection is by far the most popular execution method, accounting for 1,431 of all ...

Last year, a new execution method was used in the U.S. for the first time since 1982. Here’s a look at how people have been ...

Since the U.S. Supreme Court lifted its ban on capital punishment in 1976, states have used five different execution methods: lethal injection, electrocution, lethal gas, firing squad and hanging.

If Louisiana carries out the execution, it would join Alabama as the only two states to use nitrogen gas to put a prisoner to death. Lethal injection has been the preferred method in the modern ...

HOUSTON (AP) — Louisiana is set this week to execute a man by nitrogen gas, the first execution in the state in 15 years. Jessie Hoffman Jr., 46, is scheduled to die on Tuesday in Louisiana.