Supreme Court to hear in January plea concerning execution of death row convicts by hangingThe Supreme Court will hear arguments on January 21 regarding a plea to remove hanging as the execution method for death row convicts. The ...
11 Nov, 2025, 04.03 PM IST
Death for Charlie Kirk’s killer? Utah Governor vows to pursue death penalty; what the law says as debate over firing squad vs. lethal injection startsUtah's Governor Spencer Cox announced the state will seek the death penalty for Charlie Kirk's assassin, releasing video evidence of the ro...
12 Sep, 2025, 10.25 AM IST
Florida carries its ninth execution of 2025, setting state modern-era recordEdward Zakrzewski was executed in Florida for the 1994 murders of his wife and two children, marking Florida's ninth execution this year, s...
01 Aug, 2025, 07.09 AM IST
Pentobarbital injection used to execute Stephen Stanko, who killed two and raped his girl friend’s daughter, in South CarolinaStephen Christopher Stanko faced execution in South Carolina. He was convicted for murders and other crimes. The execution happened via let...
14 Jun, 2025, 01.50 PM IST
Beloved Texas grandmother’s killer to be executed with lethal injectionIn 2012, Matthew Lee Johnson committed a heinous crime by setting 76-year-old Nancy Harris on fire during a robbery at a Garland convenienc...
19 May, 2025, 05.51 PM IST
Lethal injection, electrocution, now firing squads. Look at US execution methodsSouth Carolina is set to execute a man by firing squad, a method unused in the US for nearly 15 years. The article reviews the various exec...
03 Mar, 2025, 12.29 PM IST
Death row inmate from South Carolina chooses most gruesome execution method. Is he repenting over his barbaric crimes?Brad Sigmon, a convicted murderer in South Carolina, has chosen to die by firing squad over lethal injection or the electric chair. Sentenc...
22 Feb, 2025, 06.46 PM IST
Trump signs death penalty order directing attorney general to help states get lethal injection drugsPresident Donald Trump signed an execution order to ensure states have sufficient lethal injection drugs, countering opposition from politi...
21 Jan, 2025, 04.02 PM IST
Alabama executes a man with nitrogen gas, the first time the new method has been usedOfficials said Kenneth Eugene Smith, 58, was pronounced dead at 8:25 p.m. at an Alabama prison after breathing pure nitrogen gas through a ...
26 Jan, 2024, 11.05 AM IST
Death penalty in US: Alabama Governor announces America's first nitrogen hypoxia execution. Details of method hereAmid the death penalty debate, Alabama Governor has announced the US' first nitrogen hypoxia execution. We have details regarding the execu...
10 Nov, 2023, 02.27 AM IST
US state Alabama to implement pure nitrogen execution method. Check history, methods of capital punishment in AmericaAlabama is on the verge of making history as the first state in the United States to employ a novel execution approach—administering death ...
30 Aug, 2023, 06.41 PM IST
Supreme Court to consider setting up panel to examine if execution of death row convicts by hanging proportionate"We cannot tell the legislature that you adopt this method. But you (PIL petitioner) can certainly argue that something may be more humane....
21 Mar, 2023, 09.54 PM IST
Unites States executes Virginia gang killer by lethal injection despite coronavirus infectionCorey Johnson, 52, was the 12th inmate put to death at the federal prison complex in Terre Haute, Indiana, since the Trump administration r...
15 Jan, 2021, 11.07 AM IST
Supreme Court asks government about modes of execution in other countriesThe court, however, made it clear that the apex court would not decide as to what should be the mode of executing a condemned prisoner in I...
09 Jan, 2018, 06.12 PM IST
Death convict should die in peace, not in pain, says Supreme CourtThe apex court agreed to examine whether execution of death sentence by hanging could be replaced by other less painful procedures like by ...
07 Oct, 2017, 10.56 AM IST
Supreme Court seeks Centre's response on plea against mode of executionThe plea said that Article 21 (Right to Life) of the Constitution also includes the right of a condemned prisoner to have a dignified mode ...
07 Oct, 2017, 12.49 AM IST
Sun Pharma against use of its drug for lethal injection in USAccording to a media report, the Arkansas purchased three drugs, including one of Sun Pharma, which were enough to perform eight executions.
23 Sep, 2015, 06.55 PM IST