Executions then resumed in 1977, when double murderer Gary Gilmore was put to death by firing squad. A steady rise in ...

Iran has executed Ali Fahim amid a surge in wartime death sentences linked to the January protests. Rights groups warn more protesters face imminent execution.

With another execution set, Brevard’s death row is nearly empty as Florida carries out a record number of executions.

A bill introduced this legislative session would legalize a form of capital punishment largely used during the Civil War but very rarely in modern day United States: execution by firing squad.

Organisations warn many more people could be executed in the wake of the anti-government protests which swept Iran earlier ...