A Texas man convicted of beating and suffocating a Dallas area pastor in his own church is facing execution on Wednesday evening ...

House Judiciary Committee Chairperson Bruce “Firing” Skaug, R-Nampa, may succeed in getting more people executed in the Gem State. But his remedy — replacing death by lethal injection with a firing ...

Convicted murderer James Ford is scheduled to be put to death by lethal injection after a unanimously rejected appeal to the ...

Though Alabama has stepped up its execution rate in recent months, Hammonds still awaits his date with death and indications are that time may be coming in the not-too-distant future.

The South Carolina Supreme Court has rejected a death row inmate’s request for information on the most recent execution, which was carried out last week.

South Carolina went 13 years between executions before restarting them last year in part because the state couldn’t obtain drugs for lethal injections. A shield law passed in 2023 keeps private the ...

A North Carolina judge has ruled that racial bias tainted jury selection and sentencing in the trial of a Black inmate who was sentenced to death in 2009.

An Alabama death row inmate who raped and murdered a woman in 1991 was executed this week using nitrogen gas, making him the ...

Demetrius Terrence Frazier broke into the window of Brown's apartment on Nov. 27, 1991, before demanding money and raping her at gunpoint.

An Alabama inmate convicted of murdering a woman after breaking into her apartment as she slept was put to death Thursday.

Brad Sigmon, 67, is scheduled to die on March 7; his attorney raises questions about the effectiveness of the drug used in ...