You’ve probably heard about Thomas Edison’s infamous 1903 film where he electrocuted an elephant. It’s just as…

For the first time in U.S. history, a death row inmate has been killed with a lethal injection containing fentanyl,…

Hamilton County sends more prisoners to death row than any other county in Ohio. And the prosecutor there is fed up…

The execution of twice-convicted killer Scott Raymond Dozier in Nevada on Wednesday was postponed after…

The United States is dealing with a drug shortage—a legal injection drug shortage, that is. In response, states…

South Carolina hasn’t killed anyone on death row in six years. Not because the state wouldn’t like to kill people,…

A death row inmate in Atlanta, Georgia has asked the court to execute him by firing squad. He argues that the pain…

In a bid to keep its identity secret, an anonymous pharmacy filed a motion Friday night arguing that selling the…

Time Magazine has put together an eye-popping chart showing every execution performed in the United States since…

Last week’s post on Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be executed in the UK, got us thinking about other executions that…

Ruth Ellis had a difficult life leading up to the night she shot her on-and-off boyfriend, David Blakely, in 1955.…

The burial grounds beneath old gallows and scaffolds tend to be ignored by scientists. But owing to the work of a…

If you're a criminal in China, you'll want to avoid its new death buses, vehicles that carry out executions while…

Guys, isn't capital punishment hilarious? I mean, there's nothing funnier than the state putting someone to death…

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A controversy has developed here at the Giz where some of our valued commenters are calling for the execution of…

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Wondering why there is a picture of a cute, kitten? Well you Google the word genocide and try to find a tasteful…