Until the past 18 months, death row inmates in the United States were executed with mostly one method in modern history: lethal injection. It's a unique situation globally. While many nations are ...

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 not ...

Until the past 18 months, death row inmates in the United States were executed with mostly one method in modern history: lethal injection. Now, depending on where they're imprisoned, inmates have a ...

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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 ...

EXECUTIONS HERE IN LOUISIANA, SEVERAL METHODS HAVE BEEN USED OVER THE YEARS. SO EARLY ON DURING OUR EARLY STATEHOOD AND COLONIAL PERIOD, HANGING WAS THE PRIMARY METHOD. IT WAS A PUBLIC SPECTACLE TO ...

(Reuters) - Thirty-seven states and the U.S. government use lethal injection as their primary method of execution. Some states using lethal injection have other methods as back-ups. In 1976, the U.S.

KOCO.COM, AND READ THE LATEST THERE. SPEAKING OF IT. DEATH ROW INMATE JOHN HANSEN GRANTED A TEMPORARY STAY OF EXECUTION DAYS BEFORE HE WAS SCHEDULED TO DIE. LAST MONTH, HANSEN’S ATTORNEYS FILED A ...