Despite the celebratory mood in Owensboro, the national outrage was clear. There have been no public executions in the U.S.

As an opponent of capital punishment, I find the unintended gruesomeness of the botched execution of Christa Pike deeply disturbing, to say nothing of the cruelty that capital punishment brings when ...

Almost a week after receiving a double shot of a lethal execution drug, Christa Pike woke up in a Nashville, Tennessee, hospital, handcuffed to a bed and, according to one of her lawyers, “angry and ...

What sort of person would willingly want to watch the public execution of another human being? That question was raised ...

Nidal Malik Hasan’s execution will no longer be televised. Christa Pike is still alive. What on Earth are we doing here ...

President Donald Trump says Nidal Hasan’s planned firing-squad execution at Fort Hood will not be livestreamed, reversing a ...

President Donald Trump said Thursday that the execution of the 2009 Fort Hood mass shooter will not be livestreamed. “With ...

The reported doubts in the White House about a Pentagon plan to air an execution of an ex-soldier hint at a long and moral ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s ghoulish plans for a public firing squad execution of a convicted terrorist murderer ...

An Indiana Republican lawmaker is preparing another attempt to make the firing squad the state’s primary method of execution, ...

The details of the execution attempt and its aftermath are appalling, compounded by the fact that Pike’s lawyers had warned ...