A man who burned the body of an Orangeburg County deputy after shooting him 9 times will die by execution on April 11, SC ...

Even as President Donald Trump and other national Republican leaders push to expand the use of capital punishment, some GOP-led states are moving in the opposite direction.

A former British prison officer has revealed the three ways death row prisoners "normally" react before their execution. Alex ...

A Nebraska death row inmate penned a motion expressing his wishes to dismiss past conviction appeals and to set an execution date.

Louisiana has hit a roadblock in its plan to resume executions after a 15-year pause. At issue is the method -- death by nitrogen gas -- an which has been used only a handful of times in Alabama and ...

Six men have died by court-ordered execution so far this year, and 12 other people are scheduled to be executed in six states ...

A Texas appeals court on Tuesday halted the execution of a man who has spent more than 30 years on death row and had been set to die by lethal injection this week over the ...

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

A federal judge has halted Louisiana’s first death row execution using nitrogen gas. It was scheduled to take place next week ...

Texas Court of Criminal Appeals blocked the execution of convicted El Paso 'Desert Killer' David Leonard Wood, court records show.

A federal judge has halted Louisiana’s first death row execution using nitrogen gas, which was scheduled to take place next ...