A federal judge says she plans to rule quickly on a Georgia man's assertion that his execution next week should be halted ...

Mark Allen Geralds was executed by lethal injection at the Florida State Prison on Tuesday for the 1989 murder of Tressa ...

Decades ago, the Supreme Court said inmates who are intellectually disabled can't be executed. Now, it weighs the use of IQ ...

A 58-year-old Florida death row inmate claimed that prison officials used expired drugs and skimped on the doses for the last ...

Forty-four death row inmates across the U.S. have been executed this year, reaching a level not seen in more than a decade.

COLUMBUS, Ohio — While Ohio has joined a few other states in pausing executions, the number of people put to death nationwide ...

John Louis Evans III was put to death in Alabama in 1983 after being convicted of killing pawnbroker Edward Nassar during a ...

Tennessee Governor Bill Lee announced today he is not planning on intervening in the death of Harold Wayne Nichols.In a ...

A man convicted of stabbing a woman to death during a home invasion robbery is set to be executed at Florida State Prison ...

Utah inmate Ralph Menzies died of natural causes after his execution was blocked after he developed dementia during his ...

A Utah man who was spared execution this fall after developing dementia during his 37 years on death row died Wednesday of ...

States are moving in sharply different directions on the death penalty, with some looking to broaden when and how executions occur while others try to scale them back or end them entirely.