Tony Carruthers is scheduled for execution May 21, but there's now questions about DNA evidence the ACLU says doesn't match ...

James Broadnax, 37, was given a lethal injection in Texas nearly 18 years after being convicted of fatally shooting two ...

The execution Thursday of James Hitchcock was the sixth so far in Florida this year, a stunning pace that has Florida leading ...

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

The British wife of a man on death row for murder said three final words before his execution. James Broadnax, 37. Received a ...

A group of Death Row exonerees in Tennessee is asking Gov. Bill Lee to stop the execution of a man convicted of a 1994 triple ...

Idaho’s prison system will have a team of riflemen ready to go by the time a state law on using firing squads for the death ...

In a sweeping 34-page ruling issued Thursday, the Florida Supreme Court blocked the imminent execution of James Aren Duckett, ...

Pennsylvania House Bill 99 and House Bill 888 supporters argue that capital punishment is costly, inconsistently applied and ...

The Justice Department also reauthorized the use of a death penalty drug, and will seek to shorten the length of some legal ...

The Pennsylvania House Judiciary Committee voted to advance two bipartisan bills that would eliminate the death penalty in ...