Lawyers for Jessie Hoffman, a Louisiana death row inmate scheduled for execution on March 18, are asking a federal judge to ...

The Senate Corrections and Criminal Law committee discussed a bill Tuesday that would allow firing squad executions for death ...

The Utah Supreme Court has stopped a firing squad execution set for next week over concerns that the inmate being put to death has dementia so severe, that he doesn't understand why he's being killed.

The planned execution for an Alabama Death Row inmate convicted of shooting a woman to death won’t happen next week. David Lee Roberts’ Aug. 21 execution was already put on hold by the state courts ...

At least one of the five members of the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles may need to be temporarily replaced in the case ...

The Utah Supreme Court has blocked a death row inmate's upcoming execution, after the inmate's attorneys argued in an extensive legal back-and-forth with the state that their client's worsening ...

KENNESAW, Ga. -- A Georgia judge on Monday ordered a temporary pause to a December execution that was already put on hold, ...

An Alabama death row inmate is set to become the seventh man executed in the state with the controversial method of nitrogen hypoxia. Anthony Todd Boyd, 54, is being executed on Thursday, Oct. 23, for ...

A Texas judge has rescheduled the execution of a death row inmate who won a rare stay of execution last year as prison officials were poised to administer his lethal injection. Judge Austin Reeve ...

McALESTER, Okla. -- A botched execution that used a new drug combination left an Oklahoma inmate writhing and clenching his teeth on the gurney Tuesday, leading prison officials to halt the ...

A Fulton County judge has temporarily halted the execution of a Georgia inmate convicted of murdering two female real estate ...