An Indiana lawmaker has proposed changes to how the state conducts executions.State Representative Jim Lucas (R) of Seymour ...

Ralph Menzies was convicted of the 1986 murder of 25-year-old Maurine Hunsaker, a married mother of three who was found tied to a tree with her throat slit.

In accordance with China's criminal law, the court deprived Zhang of political rights to life, and sentenced him to death.

Chinese actor and singer, Zhang Yiyang also known as Gui Zai, has been executed by firing squad for the murder of his underage girlfriend.The Intermediate People’s Court of Xianyang in North Shaanxi ...

The governor said Indiana no longer has any usable lethal injection drugs. Instead of purchasing more — and risking ...

Indiana is grappling with the high cost and short shelf life of the drug pentobarbital, which is used in executions.

Ralph Leroy Menzies, 67, is set to be executed Sept. 5 for abducting and killing Utah mother of three Maurine Hunsaker in 1986. When given a choice decades ago, Menzies selected a firing squad as his ...

A Utah judge has set an execution date for a man with dementia who has spent 37 years on death row, despite lawyers’ appeals arguing his worsening condition. Ralph Leroy Menzies, 67, is scheduled for ...

Utah death row inmate Ralph Leroy Menzies is scheduled to be executed by firing squad just after midnight on Sept. 5.

Executions by firing squad have been quite rare in this country, with the last one occurring more than a decade ago in Utah. That state adopted the firing squad in the middle of the 19th century, ...

From colonial days through 2002, more than 15,000 people were put to death, according to data compiled by death penalty researchers M. Watt Espy and John Ortiz Smykla. Just 143 died by firing squad… ...

Utah Department of Corrections officials say they’ll be ready to carry out the upcoming execution of death row inmate Ralph ...