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 ...

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 ...

Arkansas became the fifth state to authorize nitrogen hypoxia as a method of execution Tuesday ... not acquire components of it in the United States. The company attempted to restart production ...

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.

Louisiana is preparing this week to execute a man by nitrogen gas, the first execution in the state in 15 years. Since the ...

Lethal injection, electrocution and now firing squads. A look at US execution methods Since the Supreme Court lifted its ban on capital punishment in 1976, states have used five different ...