The order came just over 48 hours before David Leonard Wood was set to be executed by lethal injection on Thursday.

Wood's conviction of the murders of six women and girls in El Paso, Texas in 1987 was largely based on circumstantial ...

Two men convicted of murder were executed Thursday night, marking the fourth and fifth executions in the United States this year.

A man convicted of a double murder is scheduled to be executed in South Carolina Friday night by firing squad - a method that ...

A remorseful death row inmate pleaded for forgiveness and mouthed one final message before being put to death in Texas on Thursday, 20 years after he killed his strip club manager and another man.

As South Carolina prepares to execute a man by firing squad on Friday, here are the ways each state conducts capital punishment.

In an hour-long interview with USA TODAY at the state’s Death Row ... by far the nation’s deadliest state for Death Row inmates. “I’m accused of killing six people when an entire police ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A death row inmate in Louisiana who is scheduled to become the first person in the state to be executed using nitrogen gas has asked for his capital punishment to be carr ...

Hoffman, Sepulvado and seven other inmates are plaintiffs in a federal civil rights lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Louisiana's death penalty ... a statement to USA TODAY when ...

A judge is set to decide this week whether the use of nitrogen gas to execute Jessie Hoffman in Louisiana is constitutional. Hoffman, convicted of raping and killing a woman nearly 30 years ago in St.