After an attempt to add firing squads to Indiana law stalled in the Senate, a House panel on Wednesday passed a bill ...

ELON, N.C. — Update: On the deadline, Fri., Oct. 3, Gov. Josh Stein signed Iryna's Law. The clock is ticking on the fate of capital punishment, in a controversial bill Gov. Josh Stein has until Friday ...

The Supreme Court is listening to a proposal to give convicts on death row an option of choosing lethal injection as an alternative to death by hanging as a mode of execution. On Wednesday, the top ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Alabama plans to carry out its fifth execution of 2025 Thursday evening, putting Anthony Todd Boyd to death by nitrogen gas ...

WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT One 26-year-old man is set to suffer a gruesome, minutes-long death after only being allowed ten ...

Alabama’s new way of carrying out executions by nitrogen hypoxia is under review by a federal court as lawyers for a death row inmate try to establish that it causes unnecessary suffering. Lawyers for ...

AI-generated summary reviewed by our newsroom. Read our AI Policy. A Republican-drafted crime bill introduced in response to the fatal stabbing on Charlotte’s light rail last month appeared to have ...

The N.C. House of Representatives voted in favor of the criminal justice package known as Iryna's Law on Tuesday, sending the bill to Gov. Josh Stein's desk including a controversial death penalty ...

Prisoners on the North Carolina death row make their way back to their cell block at Central Prison in Raleigh in 2002, not long after a series of reforms began sharply reducing the number of ...

Senate Democratic Leader Sydney Batch of Wake County listens to debate on the Senate floor on June 19, 2025 in Raleigh. Robert Willett rwillett@newsobserver.com A Republican-drafted crime bill ...