David Pittman, convicted of a brutal 1990 triple homicide, is set to be executed by lethal injection at 6 p.m. this evening, concluding a legal battle that has spanned over three decades. The 35-year ...

Explore the detailed 14-day procedure for TX death row inmates, from notification to injection, as outlined in the state’s ...

Florida is set to execute a death row inmate for the kidnapping and stabbing death of a young woman who was attacked at work more than four decades ago. Among the witnesses to Bates' execution on ...

The Indiana Parole Board had previously recommended that Braun reject clemency for Ward, who raped and murdered a 15-year-old ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- An inmate executed by Tennessee without deactivating his implanted defibrillator said he was hurting badly shortly after the lethal injection began, according to several witnesses.

While officials with the Texas Department of Criminal Justice are blaming miscommunication for preventing reporters from witnessing the state’s first execution in nearly a year, legal and death ...

Today, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a federal lawsuit along with The Guardian and The Oklahoma Observer against Oklahoma prison officials. The lawsuit seeks to take the literal ...

The US made history in August as it executed its first-ever prisoner in 15 years by firing squad in what was only the fourth ...

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 execution date should stand. Ward’s ...