In his complaint, Michael Wade Nance said his veins were so severely compromised that they were likely to blow and cause him ...

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

The murder that Christa Pike was convicted of demonstrated a brutality and callousness not often seen in women, let alone one ...

Former Central Florida police officer James A. Duckett is scheduled to be executed on March 31 for the 1987 rape and murder ...

A Dallas County death row inmate’s attorneys are seeking to halt his scheduled execution after his cousin and co-defendant ...

Twenty-one-year-old Denise Amber Lee was abducted from her Florida home in broad daylight in 2008. If it weren't for a ...

The victim's own 911 call, unanswered in time to save her, again looms over Florida's latest scheduled execution.

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 ...

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, ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina death row inmate Stephen Stanko on Friday chose to die by lethal injection after his lawyers said he was troubled by what appeared to be a lingering death of the last ...

Cedric Ricks was executed by lethal injection on Wednesday for the murder of 30-year-old Roxann Sanchez and her 8-year-old ...

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 ...