Brad Sigmon said he chose to die by bullets because he considered the other choices offered by the state to be worse.

Christopher Sepulvado, 81, died Saturday at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, Louisiana, "from natural causes as a ...

The Supreme Court denied a death row inmate’s last-ditch effort to avoid execution Friday night, clearing the way for the first execution by firing squad in the United States in 15 years.

Just hours before Brad Sigmon is set for a historic death via firing squad, his lawyer, Bo King, says they're hoping for a stay of execution. King claims that Sigmon requested additional information ...

Man on death row for beating his ex-girlfriend's parents to death will die by firing squad unless U.S. Supreme Court grants ...

Tennessee is expected to resume its death penalty soon, after executions were halted for years while the state's process was ...

Christopher Sepulvado was expected to die by nitrogen gas March 17 — but the elderly inmate died early Sunday ... “Christopher Sepulvado’s death overnight in the prison infirmary is a ...

An 81-year-old Louisiana death row inmate died Saturday ... a new execution method it adopted last year. The method – which in Louisiana involves forcing an inmate to breathe “pure” nitrogen ...

The last execution in Tennessee took ... during the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2022, just hours away from the execution of death row inmate, Oscar Smith, Gov. Lee again ordered a pause on the death ...