Oklahoma plans to resume executions by using nitrogen or another gas to starve an inmate of oxygen because it cannot obtain the drugs needed for lethal injections, state officials said on Wednesday.

A death row inmate convicted of a 1997 gas station murder was executed on Thursday while the son of the victim pleaded for his life. Geoffrey Todd West, 50, met his end at William C. Holman ...

Kim Jong Un is said to have executed a general by tossing him into a tank filled with piranhas. The unidentified general, who was accused of plotting a coup, is believed to be among the victims of ...

Hamas defended the gruesome public executions it carried out against Palestinians earlier this week as the terrorist group says it has no plans to lay down its arms — throwing a massive wrench into ...

A triple murderer was killed by firing squad in a gruesome execution on death row last night. Stephen Bryant, 44, opted for the grisly method, rather than the lethal injection or the electric chair, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Harrowing video shows the gruesome scene where Hamas carried out mass public executions in Gaza on Monday, just hours after ...

America is returning to firing squad executions after failing to find a more humane way to carry out the death penalty.

A child killer who has spent 15 years on federal death row faces execution in January after the U.S. government reinstated the death penalty last month — ending a hiatus that began a year after truck ...

‘Excessive’ Qatari involvement in Gaza will ‘collapse’ the president’s 20-point plan, one Riyadh official says.

Fighters with Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces recorded themselves conducting an execution while surrounded by dead bodies inside el-Fasher’s Saudi Hospital. As Hiba Morgan reports, it’s the latest ...