Federal appellate judges have revived a lawsuit by some Georgia death row prisoners alleging the state is unfairly favoring ...

In most of the country, executions are a thing of the past. But one state has been carrying them out at a record pace.

Part of an agreement halting the executions of nine Georgia inmates on death row doesn’t protect them anymore, the Georgia ...

To protect their mental health and avoid lifelong trauma, Florida's corrections workers should refuse to carry out any more executions in the state.

A Tennessee man due to be executed in a matter of weeks is now relying on something saving him that barely featured when he was convicted — DNA. Tony Von Carruthers is scheduled to die at the hands of ...

The development of Idaho’s execution procedures by the director of state prisons will be shielded from the public and not subject to court review under a bill the Legislature sent to the governor’s ...

A death row prisoner whose planned execution Thursday was suddenly halted became emotional when he learned that a federal court had ruled Alabama's use of nitrogen gas violates the constitutional ban ...

The human rights organization HalVash has reported that an Afghan citizen was executed in Iran after being convicted on ...