An Oklahoma board is recommending that the governor spare the life of a man scheduled to be executed next week.

South Carolina death row inmate Stephen Bryant chooses firing squad execution for Nov. 14, becoming the third this year to ...

Harold Nichols has sued to review the state's lethal injection records ahead of his execution Dec. 11 and after issues with ...

A man convicted of raping and fatally beating his former manager at a Florida convenience store is scheduled to be put to ...

News organizations sued Tennessee prison officials over execution access, arguing that state protocols unconstitutionally ...

An electrocardiogram (ECG) monitoring the heart of a Tennessee inmate executed by lethal injection in August reportedly ...

A coalition of news organizations is suing Tennessee’s top prisons official and a warden, alleging that state execution ...

Norman Grim Jr. died via lethal injection at 6:14 p.m. EDT on Tuesday for a 1998 rape and murder as Florida set a record with ...

Several news organizations, including Tennessean publisher Gannett, have sued two state corrections officials for greater ...

FLORENCE, Arizona — The state of Arizona executed 55-year-old convicted killer Richard Kenneth Djerf Friday morning, ending a more than 30-year case stemming from the 1993 murders of four members of ...

Cedric Ricks was condemned by a Tarrant County jury in 2014 for fatally stabbing 30-year-old Roxann Diana Sanchez, and her son, Anthony Reyes Figueroa.

According to records from the Florida Department of Corrections, Aileen Wuornos' final words before her execution were: "I'd just like to say I'm sailing with the rock, and I'll be back like ...