South Carolina's execution of a convicted murderer by firing squad marked the sixth use of capital punishment in the United States this year.

Iran has executed at least 29 prisoners since the start of the war, including two on the same day on May 13, including a cybersecurity specialist hanged on espionage charges and a protester convicted of killing a security officer.

>> LOOK AT THIS BEHIND US. THIS IS THE NUMBER OF DEATH PENALTY EXECUTIONS IN OUR COUNTRY SINCE 1977. YOU SEE THE LATE 90'S. THAT WAS THE PEAK. BUT THEN A GRADUAL DECLINE. >> THAT IS UNTIL NOW. THIS UP TAKE IS FOR THIS YEAR. GULF COAST INVESTIGATOR EVAN ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Four executions are scheduled to take place this week in four different states, including Oklahoma, where the execution chamber is located at the state penitentiary in McAlester.

The Justice Department will adopt firing squad as a permitted method of execution as the Trump administration moves to ramp up and expedite capital punishment cases.

A federal judge Tuesday threatened officials from the Alabama Department of Corrections and the state Attorney General’s Office with sanctions after ruling they made false statements regarding the state’s protocol for nitrogen gas executions.

Over the next four days, four inmates in four states are scheduled to be put to death - a cluster that, while not abnormal - comes amid a national uptick in executions as President Donald Trump calls for the death penalty's expansion. The executions are ...

Many were detained during January’s mass protests, according to a rights group, amid concerns the authorities are trying to intimidate Iranians from returning to the streets.