During a committee meeting on Tuesday, Rep. Paul Sherrell suggested lynching as another possible execution method in the state.

New Delhi: What’s a more humane way to execute death-row convicts? Lethal injections or death by hanging? It’s a question that confronted the Supreme Court as it heard an eight-year-old petition ...

Wearing a dapper black suit and an almost triumphant expression, Robert James glanced down at the crowd gathered at the foot of the gallows. It was May 1, 1942, and the red-haired barber from Alabama ...