While manufacturers of FDA-approved injectable pentobarbital are warning states not to use the sedative in executions, some ...

While manufacturers of FDA-approved injectable pentobarbital are warning states not to use the sedative in executions, some ...

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.

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 ...

Ohio lawmakers are trying to end the state’s years-long moratorium on executions by seeking federal help with obtaining ...

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