“This culture of noncompliance, when combined with the risk-prone nature of pentobarbital poisoning as a method of execution, ...

The attorney general’s office has identified 22 individuals on death row who have exhausted their appeals and are among those ...

Mikal Mahdi was sentenced to death for killing an off-duty Orangeburg police officer in Calhoun County, South Carolina.

Arizona has executed a 53-year-old man convicted of kidnapping and murdering his girlfriend's former partner in 2002, marking ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — On the day that Louisiana's first execution in 15 years is scheduled to take place, attorneys for the ...

On the day that Louisiana’s first execution in 15 years is scheduled to take place, attorneys for the inmate are hoping for a ...

The suit claims the state’s lethal injection protocol constitutes violations of the state and federal constitutions.

Aaron Gunches, who is scheduled to be executed on March 19, waived his chance to try and halt the execution at the Arizona ...

A lawsuit was filed Friday by nine death row inmates against the state of Tennessee regarding plans for their executions.

An inmate on Oklahoma's death row for murdering a woman during a home invasion was executed on Thursday morning.

Protestors called for the abolishment of the death penalty Thursday morning outside the Oklahoma State Capitol, shortly ...

After weeks of legal maneuvers to delay Jessie Hoffman's execution, including a last-minute appeal denial from the U.S.