The Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday over how courts should decide borderline cases of whether convicted murderers are ...

Tennessee is preparing to execute Harold Wayne Nichols by lethal injection for the 1988 rape and murder of 20-year-old Karen Pulley.

A federal judge declined Wednesday to halt next week's scheduled execution of a Georgia man who argued that he should be ...

The Supreme Court is trying to decide whether a Mobile County man should be executed for a crime committed in 1997. Joseph Clinton Smith, 55, has been on death row for almost ...

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.

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

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

The Supreme Court on Wednesday struggled over how courts should decide borderline cases of whether convicted murderers are ...

In 2017, Florida began using a new combination consisting of etomidate, rocuronium bromide, and potassium acetate.

The US Supreme Court on Wednesday examined how to determine whether a death row inmate is intellectually disabled and should ...

Eye rolls, gestures and interruptions in a "conundrum" of a case about how to measure intellectual disability in death ...