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.

A divided Supreme Court is allowing states to cut off Medicaid money for Planned Parenthood amid a wider Republican-backed ...

The Rev. Jeff Hood has witnessed 11 executions: four in Oklahoma, three in Alabama, two in Texas, one in Missouri and one in ...

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 ...

Thomas Lee Gudinas, 51, was the seventh person put to death in Florida this year, with an eighth scheduled for next month.

This image provided by the Florida Department of Corrections shows Thomas Lee Gudinas, who is scheduled to receive a lethal ...

A man convicted of raping and killing a woman near a central Florida bar is scheduled to be executed Tuesday. Thomas Lee Gudinas, 51, is scheduled to receive a lethal injection at Florida State Prison ...

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 ...