As South Carolina prepares to execute a man by firing squad on Friday, here are the ways each state conducts capital punishment.

A death row inmate who is terrified of the electric chair ... similar to other states that use one dose of pentobarbital. In Georgia and Tennessee, only one 5 gram dose of the drug is scheduled ...

A South Carolina death row inmate who is scheduled to be executed ... to other states that use one dose of pentobarbital. In Georgia and Tennessee, a single five gram dose of the drug is ...

Georgia (which ruled that execution violated constitutional ... The convictions of Kenneth McDuff sparked discussions over why a death row inmate was free to leave in 1989, despite his role in the ...

The Georgia House unanimously passed a bill to lessen the threshold for a person facing the death penalty to be deemed ...

Supreme Court Justices Powell, Blackmun, and Stevens allowed the death penalty to return. Then they disavowed it.

Last year, a new execution method was used in the U.S. for the first time since 1982. Here’s a look at how people have been ...

Brad Sigmon is only the fourth person executed by firing squad in the United States since the death penalty resumed ...

ATLANTA - The Georgia Department of Corrections says a death row inmate has died of an apparent suicide... the second in less than a month. Department spokeswoman Joan Heath says 35-year-old Leeland ...

SO MISSISSIPPI, ALABAMA, TENNESSEE, GEORGIA. THIS IS A CLASSIC SETUP ... Jefferson County judge to grant a new trial for Toforest Johnson. Johnson has been on death row since 1998 when he was ...