Attorneys are asking a federal judge to block next month’s scheduled execution of a convicted child killer, arguing Florida’s ...

Attorneys are asking a federal judge to block next month’s scheduled execution of a convicted child killer, arguing Florida’s ...

An attorney for a recently executed Tennessee inmate says an electrocardiogram showed “sustained cardiac activity” nearly two ...

An electrocardiogram monitoring the heart of a Tennessee inmate executed by lethal injection in August showed “sustained ...

Alabama on Thursday executed a death row inmate using a method Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor called "torturous ...

Alabama is preparing to execute a man by nitrogen gas for the 1993 murder of a man who was set on fire over a drug debt.

As Alabama prepared to execute death row inmate Anthony Boyd with nitrogen gas, U.S. Supreme Court's liberal justices opposed ...

The Ohio Supreme Court is set to hear oral arguments in the Danny Lee Hill case Wednesday that could determine whether ...

Family members and others are arguing for clemency in the death penalty case of Tremane Wood, the Oklahoma City man convicted ...

If unclaimed after an execution, the state pays for cremation or burial, and the remains are buried at the Captain Joe Byrd ...

More than half of prisoners sentenced to death in the United States have been on death row for more than 18 years. Texas, ...

A jury convicted Anthony Boyd of capital murder for the 1993 burning death of Gregory Huguley in Talladega County.