Virgie Langford was ready for retirement. For five decades, the 70-year-old ran a mom-and-pop grocery store in Palmetto along Florida's Gulf Coast. The neighborhood had gotten dangerous, Langford got ...

BOISE – Idaho’s prison system has nearly completed execution chamber upgrades to carry out the death penalty by firing squad ...

Donald Trump's Justice Department announced last week it is bringing the practice back to federal death row. Death penalty ...

History has a way of feeling distant until a single photograph suddenly makes it seem surprisingly close. The Instagram page ...

U.S. President Donald Trump's administration plans to add firing squads, electrocution and gas asphyxiation as alternative ...

The US Department of Justice announced Friday that it plans to revive the firing squad as a method of killing in federal ...

Pope Leo reiterated the Catholic Church's teaching that the death penalty is "inadmissible," in a video message released ...

The Department of Justice has directed federal prisons to expand the range of methods used for executions to include firing ...

Florida plans to execute Chadwick Willacy, who was convicted of murdering his neighbor in 1990. Willacy's attorneys have appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, citing concerns over Florida's lethal ...

Florida executed Chadwick Willacy, 58, by lethal injection on Tuesday, April 21, at Florida State Prison near Starke for the horrific 1990 murder of his next-door neighbor, Marlys Sather. Willacy was ...

The man accused of killing a Minnesota lawmaker and shooting another made another court appearance on Friday, with few updates on whether prosecutors will seek the death penalty. Vance Boelter is ...