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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina death row inmate Stephen Stanko on Friday chose to die by lethal injection after his lawyers said he was troubled by what appeared to be a lingering death of the ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina death row inmate Stephen Stanko on Friday chose to die by lethal injection after his lawyers said he was troubled by what appeared to be a lingering death of the last ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) — North Carolina House Republicans are looking to change the method of execution for people on death row and end the state’s nearly two decades-long moratorium. On Tuesday, House ...

Oklahoma governor spares life of death row inmate just before scheduled lethal injection McALESTER, Okla. -- Oklahoma governor spares life of death row inmate just before scheduled lethal injection.

South Carolina is preparing this week to execute a man by firing squad, a capital punishment method that hasn’t been used in the U.S. in nearly 15 years. Since the Supreme Court lifted its ban on ...

Mississippi allows execution by firing squad, but has never used this method. Richard Jordan, Mississippi's longest-serving death row inmate, is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A man convicted of killing his girlfriend and her two young daughters in the 1980s said he was “hurting so bad” while he was given a lethal injection Tuesday in Tennessee, ...

Missouri would be first state to force execution by lethal gas. July 10, 2013— -- Twenty-one inmates on Missouri's death row have sued the state's Department of Corrections in federal court, ...

Idaho’s stockpile of execution drugs, which is housed at the Idaho state prison complex south of Boise, has cost taxpayers $200,000 over the past two years. All of the hard-to-find chemicals have ...