The mixed feelings generated by Louisiana’s resurrection of capital punishment stemmed largely from association. Prisoners with no connection to the 56 condemned men went about their business. But ...

James Edward Smith asked for a lump of dirt, but his request was denied. He settled for a cup of yogurt instead.

Florida may soon expand its approved methods of execution to include firing squads and nitrogen gas, following a wave of ...

A Gulf War Army veteran convicted of the shotgun slayings of his girlfriend and her three children has been scheduled for ...

A new book called The Volunteer is looking at the death penalty in America through the eyes of Nevada inmate Scott Dozier, ...

Each death penalty case is autho­rized by the DOJ headquarters in Washington, D.C., in con­sul­ta­tion with local U.S.

A fake doctor is accused of injecting a woman with a likely lethal dose of lidocaine in his Queens home on Friday, ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Bruce Ward, a convicted murderer who was the longest-serving inmate on Arkansas’ death row, has died ...

The Florida Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to block the scheduled April 8 execution of Michael Tanzi for the 2000 murder of ...

If a corrections bill in the Florida Legislature passes, the state could see death row prisoners executed by firing squad or ...

Lawyers for a Florida man on death row are seeking to halt his execution set for next week, arguing that his obesity could ...