The justices left in place a Texas appeals court ruling that upheld the murder conviction and death sentence for Areli ...

Four executions are scheduled this year with a new lethal injection protocol and the ethical and legal debate is intensifying ...

While the men’s death warrants were signed before Donald Trump took office January 20, the state executioners and the US judiciary were certainly emboldened to see these executions through to ...

James was executed by lethal injection for the brutal 1993 murders of 58-year-old Elizabeth "Betty" Dick and her 8-year-old granddaughter, Toni Neuner, who was raped.

Wendell Grissom was convicted of killing Amber Matthews, a young mother, in 2005. He was sentenced to die by lethal injection.

Rafael Caro Quintero, who faces trial in Brooklyn, and at least four other drug cartel figures are vulnerable to the death ...

The attorney general’s office has identified 22 individuals on death row who have exhausted their appeals and are among those ...

An Arizona man who kidnapped and murdered his girlfriend’s ex-husband was executed Wednesday, the second of four prisoners ...

Jessie Hoffman Jr completed his death sentence yesterday (March 18), becoming the first person in Louisiana to be executed in ...

A prosecutor told jurors Jessie Hoffman had "ice water in his veins," but what's colder than keeping a man in a cage for ...

Louisiana executed a man convicted of murder with nitrogen gas on Tuesday evening, capping a raging legal battle that ended ...