Florida executed its oldest inmate on Thursday, continuing a sharp increase in executions under Gov. Ron DeSantis.

A man convicted of murdering his wife over three decades ago is now facing execution. Dusty Ray Spencer, 74, a Florida native ...

Alabama is seeking to execute a man with lethal injection hours after his nitrogen execution was prevented from going forward ...

A federal judge on Tuesday permanently blocked Alabama from executing an inmate with nitrogen gas after declaring the method ...

Tony Carruthers was granted a one-year reprieve from death after his executioners failed to find a vein for lethal injection.

Christa Pike's attorneys argue the execution process will cause her to relive the sexual abuse she suffered as a child.

Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall's office made the ask less than 24 hours after the Supreme Court upheld a ruling ...

Alabama is seeking to execute a man with lethal injection hours after his nitrogen execution was prevented from going forward ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC/Gray News) - A Memphis man was not executed on Thursday morning after staff had to call off the procedure. Tony Carruthers was scheduled to die by lethal injection at Riverbend ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee officials on Thursday called off the lethal injection of Tony Carruthers, who was convicted of kidnapping and murdering three people in 1994, after his executioners tried ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Carruthers, who was sentenced to death for a 1994 triple murder, survived his date ...

On the evening of February 24, the state of Florida continued its aggressive use of the death penalty, executing 65-year-old Melvin Trotter at Florida State Prison near Starke. Trotter, who had spent ...