Texas is scheduled to execute a man convicted of killing two men as part of a 2004 dispute with his boss at a strip club, and ...

No capital punishment has been approved by the Supreme Court for a second year in a row in India. The last hangings in India ...

Two states are set to see pauses on executions end as Arizona, Louisiana and South Carolina gave execution dates to three men ...

A Tennessee death row prisoner has declared a hunger strike, saying he is protesting issues with medical care, the quality of ...

Louisiana will seek to resume carrying out death sentences in the coming months after a 15-year pause, this time using ...

Arizona has set an execution date for a convicted killer on death row, marking the state's return to the death penalty after ...

Those housed in the O'Daniel Unit in Gatesville, including such names as Melissa Lucio, have had their lives touched by a ...

During his 20 years behind bars, Richard Lee Tabler says he's found God and leads a ministry of Death Row inmates. He's ...

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Sisters from a convent outside Waco have repeatedly visited the prisoners—and even made them affiliates of their order. The ...

A convicted murderer and rapist was executed by nitrogen gas on Thursday — 14 years after he was transferred to Alabama while serving a life sentence in Michigan for a separate murder. Demetrius ...

Alabama death row inmate becomes fourth prisoner to be executed with nitrogen gas - Demetrius Terrence Frazier, 52, was ...