Mississippi has executed the longest-serving man on its death row nearly 50 years after he was convicted of murder.

Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill is asking the state Supreme Court to review and potentially expedite five death ...

Prosecutors will not seek the death penalty, partly because Karmelo Anthony was 17 at the time of his alleged stabbing.

The journalist recently wrote of her experience being present for an execution and her own family's ties to tragedy in ...

The Office of the Inspector General was notified, and the Kern County Coroner will determine Mendez’s official cause of death. Mendez, 46, was received from Riverside County on Dec. 2, 2004. He ...

Four family members arrested after the suspicious death of 11-year-old boy in North Texas 00:35. Four people have been arrested in connection with the suspicious death of an 11-year-old boy in ...

But state rules allow for a second dose 10 minutes after the first if any residual electrical impulses are detected in the heart, said Department of Corrections lawyer Daniel Plyler. And witnesses to ...

In court papers quoted by the AP, an expert for Stanko, 57, suggested that the firing squad either aimed below the target or that the target was not placed on Mahdi's heart to "cause great pain ...

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.

Texas death row inmate Rodney Reed continues to fight for his innocence and access to DNA testing as his case enters its 25th year, with ongoing roadblocks from the Bastrop County District ...