This photo provided by the South Carolina Department of Corrections shows the state's death chamber in Columbia, South Carolina, including the electric chair, right, and a firing squad chair, left.

RAIFORD — Across from the Florida State Prison stood a small crowd donning white “Justice for Carmen Gayheart” T-shirts underneath the shade of a tall tree. Just after 6:22 p.m. on Tuesday, the ...

STARKE, Fla. (AP) — A man convicted of raping and killing a woman three decades ago after kidnapping her from a supermarket parking lot was executed Tuesday in Florida. Anthony Wainwright, 54, ...

Two men were executed in the U.S. on Tuesday in what is now the nation's fourth double execution of the year. Florida executed Anthony Wainwright by lethal injection just after 6 p.m. ET for the 1994 ...

Two death row inmates were executed by a pair of southern states for their twisted murders minutes apart Tuesday evening. Anthony Wainwright was put to death in Florida and Gregory Hunt was killed in ...

ATMORE, Ala. (AP) - An Alabama man convicted of killing a woman in 1988 was put to death Tuesday evening in the nation’s sixth execution by nitrogen gas. Gregory Hunt, 65, was pronounced dead at 6:26 ...