Clive Stafford Smith, who is retired from Death Row law, continues to campaign against the penalty and claims the US is ...

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

There are not many more well-known serial killers than the infamous Ted Bundy who was responsible for the deaths of at least ...

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

Despite the associated blood and gore, the firing squad — condemned inmates like himself were told — offered a quick, sure and less-agonizing death than the state's alternatives of lethal injection ...

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. Gregory Hunt, 65, was pronounced dead at 6:26 p.m. at a ...

Between 2021 and 2023, 100% of all executions in the U.S. were done by lethal injection. In the last year and a half, 16% have involved other methods.

Between 2021 and 2023, 100% of all executions in the U.S. were done by lethal injection. In the last year and a half, 16% have involved other methods.

Before Rogers' death, the most recent U.S. execution took place May 1, when Jeffrey Hutchinson, 62, died by lethal injection in Florida for the 1998 shotgun slayings of his girlfriend and her ...

Death row inmate Edmund Zagorski died at 7:26 p.m. CDT on Thursday after Tennessee prison officials electrocuted him with the electric chair. He was 63. He is the 134th person put to death by ...

The electric chair used by Texas was ... A mask is placed over a prisoner's ... Data collected by researchers of U.S. executions from 1608 to 2002 found 9,322 people were put to death by ...

A 67-year-old man was executed by firing squad in the US state of South Carolina on Friday, prison officials said.. It was the first execution of its type to be carried out in the US in 15 years ...