Several Arkansas death row inmates have sued the state to block a new law allowing executions by nitrogen gas.

The U.S. directed prosecutors to not seek capital punishment for three reputed drug lords, including one in a DEA agent's ...

Byron Black is scheduled to be given a lethal injection after a legal battle about whether a working defibrillator in his ...

Foreign defendants are rarely sent to the United States if they might face death, and America’s use of capital punishment has ...

Edward Zakrzewski, a former Eglin Air Force airman, was sentenced to death for killing his wife and two children in 1994.

Tennessee's high court has ruled that a death row inmate can be executed without deactivating his implanted defibrillator.

Gov. Ron DeSantis has already executed more inmates this year than any governor in Florida history – and will soon add to ...

Ten inmates on Arkansas' Death Row have filed a lawsuit to block the state's use of nitrogen gas for executions, arguing that ...

A group of Arkansas prisoners are hoping to block a new law that allows death row inmates to be executed by nitrogen gas.

Byron Black, a death row inmate convicted of killing his girlfriend and her two young daughters, is scheduled to be executed ...

The inmates contend juries sentenced them to execution by lethal injection and the Legislature “cannot rewrite those verdicts ...

For the last decade or so, those opposed to capital punishment have been repeating the same mantra as a way to mark the progress of their campaign to end state killing in this country: The number of ...