Alabama plans to carry out another nitrogen gas execution in August, continuing its use of the controversial method amid ongoing debates over mental health concerns.

On June 16, the Alabama Supreme Court authorized the execution of David Lee Roberts, 59. Roberts is set to die by nitrogen ...

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

The Rev. Jeff Hood, a witness to 11 executions, plans to travel to Parchman to pray outside if Richard Jordan’s is executed ...

Louisiana had gone more than a decade without any executions. Now, state leaders are ramping up efforts to carry out those sentences for death row inmates.

If two more executions proceed as planned before the end of June, the same number will have taken place in the first half of ...

Indiana's lethal injections force doctors to break their "do no harm" oath while costing $450,000 per execution.

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

Before the procedure took place, he was asked whether he had any final words, to which he replied 'no' before giving a chilling signal to witnesses in the auditorium. He was then strapped to a gurney ...

"Gregory Hunt spent more time on death row than Karen spent alive. If he had any real evidence of innocence, he had more than three decades to present it. He did not. What he and his supporters ...

Here's what to know about the executions that have been ordered this week. Anthony Wainwright, Florida. Florida inmate Anthony Wainwright, 54, received a lethal injection and was ...

Gregory Hunt was executed for the slaying of Karen Sanders Lane. She was 32 when murdered in her friend's apartment.