When Florida executes James “Ernie” Hitchcock on Thursday evening, the state will be ending the life of a prisoner who has ...

Melissa Lucio remains on death row in Cameron County, Texas, nearly four years after her scheduled execution was halted and ...

James Franklin Rose has been waiting a lifetime to be put to death. In 1976, Rose kidnapped and killed an 8-year-old ...

Chadwick Willacy maintained his innocence before Florida executed him for the first-degree murder of elderly neighbor Marlys ...

Pursuit of a remote-operated system to carry out the death penalty has been unsuccessful to date as the prison preps for a firing squad.

Clarence Jordan, a condemned Houston man with a history of mental health issues whose death sentence was vacated, will not ...

Time is running out in the fight to stop the execution of a convicted killer. James Broadnax, 37, is scheduled to die by ...

Irving Alvin Davis says the state's use of his religious beliefs as evidence he poses a future danger to society violates his ...

Willacy was executed by lethal injection at Florida State Prison in Bradford County on Tuesday after spending decades on ...

The last execution in Washington state took place in 2010.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order last January, prioritizing the use of the death penalty in federal cases.