Edward Thomas James is scheduled to die by lethal injection on Thursday, about seven hours after the scheduled execution of ...

A 53-year-old man convicted of murder was executed by lethal injection on Wednesday, becoming the third person executed in ...

Louisiana ended its 15-year death penalty hiatus Tuesday when it executed convicted rapist and murderer Jessie Hoffman with ...

Aaron Gunches was successfully put to death for the murder of Ted Price without incident, the Arizona Department of ...

Dreu Kopf was hanging out at home with her young daughters and dear friend Amber Matthews when Wendell Grissom barged in and ...

James drew the death penalty for the Sept. 19, 1993, killings of 8-year-old Toni Neuner and Betty Dick, 58, the child’s ...

A few seconds before 6:27 p.m., Jessie Hoffman jerked slightly. It would be the last significant movement Hoffman would make, ...

Louisiana has used nitrogen gas to put a man to death, marking the first time the state has used that execution method.

Mikal Mahdi was sentenced to death for killing an off-duty Orangeburg police officer in Calhoun County, South Carolina.

Canada’s foreign minister said the government would continue to ask for leniency from China for other Canadians in similar ...

A Florida death row inmate convicted of raping and killing a girl, 8, and murdering her grandmother is asking the U.S.

Rafael Caro Quintero, who faces trial in Brooklyn, and at least four other drug cartel figures are vulnerable to the death ...