Executions in the US are becoming increasingly cruel, with states adopting new methods such as nitrogen hypoxia and lethal ...

An execution in the state of Alabama is raising more questions about a controversial drug used in lethal injections. Late last night, Alabama executed Ronald Bert Smith, a convicted murderer. In that ...

Arizona's Senate passed a measure that would allow voters to decide on firing squad executions, a method proponents call humane.

Attorneys for death row inmate Chadwick Willacy have filed an emergency petition with the Florida Supreme Court, alleging the ...

James Duckett has been temporarily spared from execution pending the results of a DNA test that his lawyers say will ...

Governor Ron DeSantis has signed a death warrant for Frank Athen Walls, 58, scheduling his execution by lethal injection for December 18 at Florida State Prison. Walls's execution would be the 19th ...

Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost renewed his push to resume executions in Ohio Wednesday, calling the state's years-long pause ...

A Texas man convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend died by lethal injection Wednesday evening, marking the first U.S. execution of the year. Charles Victor Thompson, 55, was ...

RAIFORD, Fla. – Florida executed its first prisoner of 2026 on Tuesday evening, a man twice convicted in separate murders 12 years apart and who stabbed a robbery victim in the neck with a hunting ...

On the evening of February 24, the state of Florida continued its aggressive use of the death penalty, executing 65-year-old Melvin Trotter at Florida State Prison near Starke. Trotter, who had spent ...

Faith leaders, community advocates, and relatives of a person executed by firing squad are protesting firms involved in constructing Idaho's execution chamber due to the refusal of pharmaceutical ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee executed Harold Wayne Nichols by lethal injection Thursday in Nashville for the 1988 rape and murder of Karen Pulley, a 20-year-old student at Chattanooga State Community ...