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Three States Set Executions on Same Day, a First Since 2010

Legal rulings, clemency votes, procedural questions over lethal-injection methods will decide whether the scheduled deaths go forward.

Florida Carries Out Two Executions in One Day, First Double Execution Since 1964

Florida Carries Out Rare Double Execution, Putting Two Longtime Inmates to Death

Florida Executes Melvin Trotter for 1986 Killing After Supreme Court Denies Stay

Botched Gas-Chamber Execution of Jimmy Lee Gray Led Mississippi to End New Gas Sentences

Florida Executes Victor Tony Jones, Extending Single-Year Record to 13

Florida Executes Michael Bernard Bell in 26th U.S. Execution of 2025

Tennessee Executes Oscar Smith Under Revised Lethal Injection Protocol

South Carolina Firing Squad Execution Deemed Botched After Autopsy Findings

South Carolina Executes Mikal Mahdi by Firing Squad, Second Such Execution in Five Weeks

South Carolina Executes Second Prisoner by Firing Squad in Less Than a Month

Florida Executes Edward Thomas James for 1993 Murders of Child and Grandmother

Idaho Faces Challenges in Reviving Firing Squad Executions

South Carolina Executes Inmate by Firing Squad for First Time in 15 Years

South Carolina Prepares for First Firing Squad Execution in 15 Years

South Carolina Death Row Inmate Chooses Firing Squad for Execution

Alabama Executes Convicted Murderer Using Controversial Nitrogen Gas Method

Alabama Executes Convicted Killer Using Controversial Nitrogen Gas Method

Idaho to Retry Execution of Inmate After Botched Attempt

Florida Executes Loran Cole for 1994 Murder of FSU Student