When contemplating the fate of veterans convicted of capital crime, it is important to bear in mind that combat-related brain ...

Anthony Wainwright, 54, was put to death by lethal injection at Florida State Prison near Starke on Tuesday evening. He was ...

The now 68-year-old inmate has been declared incompetent since 1987 when his initial execution was halted due to severe mental illness, including schizophrenia and organic brain dysfunction.

They argue that brain damage is what caused his criminal behavior in 2000, when Ritchie stole a van, ran from police, then shot and killed Beech Grove Police Department Officer William Toney.

Ralph Menzies, a convicted killer in Utah who developed dementia during his decades on death row, is competent enough to be executed, a state judge ruled on Friday.

PHOENIX — The Arizona Supreme Court on Monday upheld the guilty verdict and death sentence of a Yuma man convicted of bludgeoning his girlfriend to death.