Alabama executes death row inmate Jamie Mills for elderly couple's 2004 murders

Alabama executed death row inmate Jamie Ray Mills on Thursday, marking the state's first execution s...

Missouri sets execution date for death row inmate Marcellus Williams, despite doubts over DNA evidence

Missouri has scheduled the execution of death row inmate Marcellus Williams, even though he was neve...

Missouri set to execute death row inmate David Hosier for 2009 murders after governor denies clemency

Missouri was planning to carry out its second execution of the year on Tuesday after Gov. Mike Parso...

Alabama set to execute convicted murderer, then skip autopsy

A man convicted of killing a delivery driver who stopped for cash at an ATM to take his wife to dinn...

Alabama inmate's lawyers seek to block his execution by nitrogen gas, citing problems with controversial method

Days after Alabama scheduled its third execution by nitrogen hypoxia, lawyers for the latest prisone...

South Carolina Supreme Court refuses to stop upcoming execution of Freddie Owens, the state's first in 13 years

The South Carolina Supreme Court on Thursday refused to stop the execution of Freddie Owens who is s...

Alabama's second nitrogen gas execution follows what critics call an "insistence on secrecy" by corrections officials

Toward the end of June 2018, condemned inmates at Holman Correctional Facility in southern Alabama r...

Iran executes 2 men in public over killing of police officer during armed robbery

Iranian authorities on Monday executed two men in public over the killing of a police officer during...