A judge's order to take a Tennessee death row inmate to the hospital on the morning of his execution so doctors can deactivate his heart-regulating implant would cause "chaos," state attorneys said in ...

This collection of stories examines how individuals, legal teams and institutions address the process and implications of choosing among three execution methods in South Carolina. A man with two death ...

MINUTES. WE ARE LESS THAN 24 HOURS AWAY FROM THE EXECUTION OF BRAD SIGMAN, THE CONDEMNED INMATE CHOSE TO DIE BY FIRING SQUAD. IF THE EXECUTION HAPPENS AS SCHEDULED, SIGMAN WILL BE THE FIRST INMATE TO ...

A Florida man, James Ernest Hitchcock, 70, was executed Thursday evening for the brutal 1976 murder of his brother's 13-year-old stepdaughter, Cynthia Driggers. Hitchcock was pronounced dead at 6:12 p ...

An Arizona prisoner scheduled to be executed next month for killing four members of a family in their Phoenix home over 30 years ago has issued a statement apologizing for the pain he’s caused. In a ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina’s highest court has refused to stop the execution of a man who killed three people over five days more than 20 years ago while leaving taunting messages for police in ...

Texas has executed a death row inmate who fatally stabbed his girlfriend and her 8-year-old son in a fit of rage before he turned the knife on her 12-year-old son, who miraculously survived the attack ...

A terminally ill man who spent over 30 years on death row in Louisiana for the killing of his stepson died days after a March date was scheduled for his execution by nitrogen gas. Christopher ...