Texas inmate set to be executed on what would have been teen victim's 41st birthday

A Texas man who admitted that he kidnapped, sexually assaulted and fatally shot the 18-year-old girl...

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...

South Carolina death penalty methods are legal, including firing squad, state's high court rules

South Carolina can execute death row inmates by firing squad, lethal injection or the electric chair...

Oklahoma city to pay over $7 million to cleared death row inmate who spent almost half a century in prison

Edmond, Okla. — An Oklahoma city has agreed to pay more than $7 million to a former death row inmate...

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...

Indian state passes law seeking death penalty for rapists after rape and murder of doctor

An Indian state, shaken by weeks of protests demanding justice after the rape and murder of a doctor...

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...

Last-ditch efforts seek to halt looming execution of Marcellus Williams in Missouri

Two new court filings are again aiming to halt the impending execution of Marcellus Williams, a cond...

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...