A coalition of news organizations is suing Tennessee’s top prisons official and a warden, alleging that state execution ...

As Florida continues to add to a modern-era record for executions in a year, Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday said he is bringing justice to victims’ families.

Arron Lawson, who was found guilty of killing four people in 2017, is in court challenging his death sentence even as the State of Ohio has him scheduled for execution on Jan. 6, although, due to ...

The Supreme Court has never issued an execution stay in the past, but the court said in its opinion Monday that it had "sole power" to determine which court has jurisdiction to issue a stay. It had ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Tennessee Supreme Court on Tuesday set execution dates for four people, including the only woman in the state on death row. Christa Pike received the death sentence at age ...

Justice Sonia Sotomayor said Anthony Todd Boyd should not be the eight man executed with the controversial method of nitrogen ...

After three executions in less than a year — ending a nearly 15-year pause in Indiana’s use of capital punishment — it’s not clear when the state will carry out ...

TALLAHASSEE — The Florida Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to block next week’s scheduled execution of Samuel Smithers for the murders of two women in Hillsborough County, rejecting arguments that he ...

As the state of Alabama prepared to execute a death row inmate on Thursday with nitrogen gas, the U.S. Supreme Court's three ...

A man convicted of the 1998 rape and killing of his neighbor is set to be the 15th person executed in Florida this year.

The Supreme Court’s three liberal justices laid out a remarkable critique of nitrogen hypoxia executions Thursday, asserting that the new form of capital punishment causes “psychological terror” and ...