Executions in the US are becoming increasingly cruel, with states adopting new methods such as nitrogen hypoxia and lethal ...

Arizona's Senate passed a measure that would allow voters to decide on firing squad executions, a method proponents call humane.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. TALLAHASSEE — Accusing the state of “reckless maladministration” of the lethal-injection process, an attorney for condemned killer ...

Attorneys for death row inmate Chadwick Willacy have filed an emergency petition with the Florida Supreme Court, alleging the ...

A Texas man convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend died by lethal injection Wednesday evening, marking the first U.S. execution of the year. Charles Victor Thompson, 55, was ...

James Duckett has been temporarily spared from execution pending the results of a DNA test that his lawyers say will ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - A group of news organizations is suing Tennessee’s Department of Corrections commissioner and a prison warden over the limitations the state’s execution methods present to ...

An electrocardiogram (ECG) monitoring the heart of a Tennessee inmate executed by lethal injection in August reportedly showed "sustained cardiac activity" for nearly two minutes after Byron Black was ...

On the evening of February 24, the state of Florida continued its aggressive use of the death penalty, executing 65-year-old Melvin Trotter at Florida State Prison near Starke. Trotter, who had spent ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee executed Harold Wayne Nichols by lethal injection Thursday in Nashville for the 1988 rape and murder of Karen Pulley, a 20-year-old student at Chattanooga State Community ...

Advocates and faith leaders in Idaho plan to gather to express concerns about a potential new firing squad execution center.

The murder that Christa Pike was convicted of demonstrated a brutality and callousness not often seen in women, let alone one ...