Two men were executed in the U.S. on Tuesday in what is now the nation's fourth double execution of the year. Florida executed Anthony Wainwright by lethal injection just after 6 p.m. ET for the ...

A federal judge denied a Mississippi inmate's request to halt his execution scheduled for next week. The inmate, Richard Jordan, is challenging the state's three-drug execution protocol.

A reprieve was Smith's last legal avenue to avoid execution. The Tennessee Department of Correction served Smith his last meal at 5:30 p.m. May 21, according to spokesperson Dorinda Carter.

Mississippi death row inmate Richard Jordan's execution is scheduled for June 25th, amidst legal challenges to the state's three-drug protocol. Jordan's attorneys argue for the use of ...

A judge has ruled that Ralph Leroy Menzies is competent enough to be executed for the 1986 kidnapping and death of a Utah woman. Her son said her family is pleased by the ruling.

The 975 people executed in 2024 surpassed the estimated 834 in 2023 and was the highest rate of executions since 2015, says the report by Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.

Stephen Stanko's execution is scheduled for June 13. A jury found Stanko guilty in 2005 of murdering his 43-year-old girlfriend, Laura Ling of Murrells Inlet, and 74-year-old Henry Turner of Conway.

A convicted killer in Utah who developed dementia while on death row for 37 years is competent enough to be executed, a state judge ruled late Friday. Ralph Leroy Menzies, 67, was sentenced to die ...

The state of Alabama has executed Gregory Hunt by nitrogen hypoxia for the 1988 murder of Karen Lane. A doctor pronounced Hunt to dead at 6:26 p.m. June 10. His death marked Alabama's third ...

An Oklahoma judge granted a temporary stay of execution Monday to a man whose transfer to death row was expedited by the Trump administration and who was scheduled to receive a lethal injection on ...

Stephen Stanko, 57, was executed by lethal injection on Friday, June 13, for the murder of 74-year-old Henry Lee Turner, a retired Air Force master sergeant and father of three.

COLUMBIA, S.C. -- A South Carolina man sent to death row twice for separate murders was put to death Friday by lethal injection in the state's sixth execution in nine months.