A woman who gave birth while imprisoned on death row has been executed by hanging, according to reports. Asma Zarei, 28, faced accusations of deliberately murdering her husband. Zarei, reportedly from ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Saleh Mohammadi was a member of Iran's national wrestling team. According to Iranian media, they were publicly executed by hanging ...

Sometimes, in the quiet of the night, attorney Gerald Bo King sees his client, Brad Sigmon, die — again and again. The silence reminds him of the moments in the death chamber before the guns went off.

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 ...

After a botched execution attempt in 2024, Idaho lawmakers made death by firing squad the state's primary execution method. Lethal injection was first proposed in New York in the late 1800s, though ...

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 ...