South Carolina plans to execute Mikal Mahdi on Friday for the murder of a police officer, draping a hood over his head and ...

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South Carolina became the first state since 2010 to execute an inmate by firing squad. Is the method legal in Mississippi?

MIT engineers have devised a new way to deliver certain drugs in higher doses with less pain, by injecting them as a suspension of tiny crystals. Once under the skin, the crystals assemble into a drug ...

A bill could make firing squads and lethal gas options in Florida executions as a shortage of pentobarbital, used for lethal ...

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 ...

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.

Lethal injection has been the preferred method in the modern era, with 1,428 carried out since 1976. Texas has done the most, killing 593 inmates, according to the Death Penalty Information Center ...