Prosecutors plan to seek the execution of a man accused of shooting and killing four members of a family in rural Tennessee, ...

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

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

Byron Black, a death row inmate with dementia and multiple organ failure, was executed by lethal injection despite having an ...

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

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

Ten Arkansas death row prisoners filed a lawsuit Tuesday asking a judge to block a new state law that authorizes execution by ...

The novena began Aug. 6 and concludes Aug. 14, the memorial of St. Maximilian Kolbe, a Catholic priest executed in Auschwitz ...

Convicted murderer Byron Black was put to death by lethal injection Tuesday, Aug. 5, in what experts believe is the first ...

Days after the execution, his attorney released a statement confirming that the implanted defibrillator did not shock Byron ...

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 ...

The execution of Byron Black raised questions for weeks over Tennessee’s death penalty law in connection with intellectual ...