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

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

In his complaint, Michael Wade Nance said his veins were so severely compromised that they were likely to blow and cause him ...

The victim's own 911 call, unanswered in time to save her, again looms over Florida's latest scheduled execution.

A Dallas County death row inmate’s attorneys are seeking to halt his scheduled execution after his cousin and co-defendant ...

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 ...

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday denied a last-minute petition from Michael King, 54, who is scheduled to be executed Tuesday by lethal injection.

Cedric Ricks was executed by lethal injection on Wednesday for the murder of 30-year-old Roxann Sanchez and her 8-year-old ...

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 ...

Governor Ron DeSantis has signed a death warrant for Frank Athen Walls, 58, scheduling his execution by lethal injection for December 18 at Florida State Prison. Walls's execution would be the 19th ...

An execution in the state of Alabama is raising more questions about a controversial drug used in lethal injections. Late last night, Alabama executed Ronald Bert Smith, a convicted murderer. In that ...

Eight days before Tennessee is scheduled to execute another death row inmate, the state's high court met to determine if the lethal injection officials will use to kill him will illegally torture him ...