Between 2021 and 2023, 100% of all executions in the U.S. were done by lethal injection. In the last year and a half, 16% have involved other methods.

While many countries have abolished capital punishment, a number still carry out executions using methods that can seem archaic, unsettling, or deeply unusual by modern standards. These practices are ...

Prisoners on the North Carolina death row make their way back to their cell block at Central Prison in Raleigh in 2002, not long after a series of reforms began sharply reducing the number of ...

The N.C. House of Representatives voted in favor of the criminal justice package known as Iryna's Law on Tuesday, sending the bill to Gov. Josh Stein's desk including a controversial death penalty ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina Republican legislators are poised this week to approve criminal justice measures designed to toughen bail rules, restrict magistrates’ powers and evaluate offenders ...

Editor's Note: Video above features previous coverage of light rail arrest. North Carolina Republican legislators are poised this week to approve criminal justice measures designed to toughen bail ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Alabama plans to carry out its fifth execution of 2025 Thursday evening, putting Anthony Todd Boyd to death by nitrogen gas ...

Senate Democratic Leader Sydney Batch of Wake County listens to debate on the Senate floor on June 19, 2025 in Raleigh. Robert Willett rwillett@newsobserver.com A Republican-drafted crime bill ...

Photo of William M. Tucker. Senate and House Republicans unveiled legislation that their leaders previously signaled would surface when the General Assembly reconvened on Monday after nearly two ...

AI-generated summary reviewed by our newsroom. Read our AI Policy. A Republican-drafted crime bill introduced in response to the fatal stabbing on Charlotte’s light rail last month appeared to have ...