The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals issued an order Tuesday setting the execution date. His execution had been scheduled ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Nine Tennessee death row inmates are suing the state over its push for a new round of lethal ...

South Carolina death row inmate has asked to die by firing squad just five weeks after the state carried out its first ...

No South Carolina governor has offered clemency in the 47 executions in the state since the death penalty resumed in the United States in 1976.

Mikal Mahdi, who killed a South Carolina police officer during a multi-state crime spree, has chosen to die by firing squad.

Judge Robert Pitman says inmates who sued the state could win their case but that the fix is not easy or cheap.

Employees from at least one Texas prison falsified temperature logs that help the agency decide when the conditions inside ...

With the execution of David Leonard Wood now paused for a second time, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals is reviewing a ...

It was the fifth nitrogen execution in the U.S. The first four happened here in Alabama. Mississippi and Oklahoma also have approved nitrogen’s use, and Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders this week ...

Arizona resumed executions Wednesday morning, after a 2-year moratorium that was prompted by three botched executions performed in 2022.

(AP) — An Arizona man who kidnapped and murdered his girlfriend’s ex-husband was executed Wednesday ... was lethally injected ...