Twenty-four men have died by court-ordered execution so far this year in the U.S. Five other people are scheduled to be put ...

A death row inmate’s attorneys are asking the court to reverse a lower court’s decision that declined to decide eligibility ...

Prosecutors announced on Monday they are seeking the death penalty against a Harrisburg man accused of fatally stabbing a fellow inmate to death at SCI Camp Hill. Police say Hezekiah Campbell, 30, ...

A death row inmate set to be executed later this year has asked the state Supreme Court to overturn a lower court ruling and ...

ATMORE, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama man convicted of killing a woman in 1988 was put to death Tuesday evening in the nation’s sixth execution by nitrogen gas.

ATMORE, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama man convicted of killing a woman in 1988 was put to death Tuesday evening in the nation’s sixth execution by nitrogen gas. Gregory Hunt, 65, was pronounced dead ...

Hunt, who was born in 1960 and came to death row in 1990, is now among the longest-serving inmates on Alabama’s death row. He said prison became his “hospital” to heal his broken mind.

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma prosecutors will retry longtime death row inmate Richard Glossip a third time for his role in the 1997 killing of his former boss, Attorney General Gentner Drummond ...

John Fitzgerald Hanson, sentenced to death for a 1999 murder, has been granted a stay of execution pending the resolution of his lawsuit against the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board.

John Fitzgerald Hanson, sentenced to death for a 1999 murder, has been granted a stay of execution pending the resolution of his lawsuit against the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board.