In the death chambers of the Mississippi Delta, on a rainy night in an Indiana penitentiary, and in the early hours at an ...

Between 2021 and 2023, 100% of all executions in the U.S. were done by lethal injection. In the last year and a half, 16% ...

Most of the 23 states that still have an active death penalty allow a certain number of journalists to witness executions, as ...

An Alabama man convicted of killing a woman in 1988 was put to death Tuesday evening in the nation's sixth execution by ...

Officials said Kenneth Eugene Smith, 58, was pronounced dead at 8: ... It marked the first time that a new execution method has been used in the United States since lethal injection, now the ...

When the Rev. Jeff Hood entered Missouri's execution chamber this past week, he saw something hauntingly out of the ordinary: himself. The window to the death chamber is one-way, meaning witnesses ...

Sometime on May 8, two weeks before his scheduled execution ... Security Institution Warden Kenneth Nelsen detailed the accommodations he'd agreed to grant Smith. They include allowing a minister ...

Before the procedure took place, he was asked whether he had any final words, to which he replied 'no' before giving a ...

They were met with law enforcement as Lee County deputies hoped to make an arrest in the 1995 murder of Rodney Cotten ... made a statement that Willard Eugene Smith was not at the service ...

"Gregory Hunt spent more time on death row than Karen spent alive. If he had any real evidence of innocence, he had more than ...

Tennessee has executed Oscar Franklin Smith for the 1989 murder of his estranged wife, 35-year-old Judith Robirds Smith, and her sons, 13-year-old Jason Burnett and 16-year-old Chad Burnett.