Idaho officials recently put off the execution of a convicted murderer because the state couldn't legally find the drugs needed to kill him.

The Senate Corrections and Criminal Law committee discussed a bill Tuesday that would allow firing squad executions for death ...

U.S. District Judge Eli Richardson dismissed Nichols' lawsuit on Nov. 26, ruling that the statute of limitations barred him from challenging his method of execution. His attorneys at the Federal ...

KENNESAW, Ga. (AP) — A Georgia judge on Monday ordered a temporary pause to a December execution that was already put on hold ...

PARCHMAN, Miss. — Richard Jordan, who spent nearly half a century on Mississippi’s death row, was lying strapped to a gurney with his arms splayed out and covered in a white sheet up to his neck when ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Tennessee plans to execute Byron Black on Tuesday for the 1988 murders of a woman and her two young daughters, despite concerns from his attorneys that a device implanted to ...

ATMORE, AL -- Thirteen minutes into his execution by injection, an Alabama inmate heaved and coughed and appeared to move during tests meant to determine consciousness. Ronald Bert Smith Jr., 45, was ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — A federal judge Wednesday told lawyers for a South Carolina inmate scheduled to die in two days that he doesn’t plan to stop the execution because they didn’t have evidence ...

Former Florida State Prison Warden Ron McAndrew argues that Florida's rapid scheduling of executions is pushing the state's ...

ATMORE, Ala. -- Thirteen minutes into his execution by injection, an Alabama inmate heaved and coughed and appeared to move during tests meant to determine consciousness. Ronald Bert Smith Jr., 45, ...