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 ...

This article contains mentions of violence and sexual abuse. Reader discretion is advised. After many attempts to avoid his ...

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, ...

(INDIANA CAPITAL CHRONICLE) — Attorneys for death row inmate Roy Lee Ward and the Indiana Attorney General’s Office are sparring before the state’s highest court over whether Ward’s tentative ...

Tennessee death row inmate Harold Wayne Nichols on Monday declined to choose between the electric chair and lethal injection for his Dec. 11 execution, meaning the state will default to lethal ...

Update (5:50 p.m.): Edmund Zagorski's attorney, Kelley Henry, tells the Scene that Tennessee Department of Correction officials have said it's too late for Zagorski to choose the electric chair, and ...

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, 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 ...