Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita and then Gov. Eric Holcomb announced they were seeking to resume executions after a ...

The Indiana Supreme Court on Monday tentatively scheduled an Oct. 10 execution date for death row inmate Roy Lee Ward, but ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Attorneys for a Tennessee death row inmate have launched a last-ditch effort to prevent his Aug. 5 ...

Alabama has set an execution date for a man convicted three decades ago of shooting a woman in the head while she slept.

Richard Jordan, who spent 48 years on Mississippi’s death row, received an execution by lethal injection at the state penitentiary in Parchman.

Ritchie, 45, had been on Indiana’s death row since 2002, when he was convicted of killing Toney during a foot chase. Ritchie was executed shortly after midnight Tuesday in the state’s second ...

An Indiana man convicted in the fatal shooting of a police officer in 2000 was executed Tuesday by lethal injection in the state’s second execution in 15 years.

An Indiana man convicted in the fatal shooting of a police officer in 2000 was executed Tuesday by lethal injection in the state’s second execution in 15 years.

Benjamin Ritchie, 45, had been on Indiana’s death row for over two decades after he was convicted in the 2000 fatal shooting of a police officer.

Indiana officials have executed a man convicted in the 2000 killing of a police officer. Benjamin Ritchie died by lethal injection early Tuesday at the Indiana State Prison in Michigan City. The ...

An Indiana man convicted in the 2000 fatal shooting of a police officer is set to receive a lethal injection this week in the state's second execution in 15 years.