Nikolas Cruz, who killed 17 people at a high school in Parkland, Fla., in 2018, faces either life imprisonment or the death ...

Executions in the US are becoming increasingly cruel, with states adopting new methods such as nitrogen hypoxia and lethal ...

An Alabama man on death row for raping and murdering a 5-year-old girl in late 2021 wants the state to hurry up and get it ...

Arizona's Senate passed a measure that would allow voters to decide on firing squad executions, a method proponents call ...

Ellis Rold of WBIR Channel 10 says Tennessee’s most infamous death penalty case is back in the spotlight, again, because the state’s only woman on death row is now suing over how she could be executed ...

Tennessee death row inmate, Christa Pike, is set to be the first woman executed in the state in over 200 years. She filed a ...

The U.S. Supreme Court may reinterpret what is considered a "cruel and unusual punishment." If they do, Albany might become a ...

Ohio’s death row wait time now stretches longer than 22 years, with more and more inmates dying from natural causes—or by ...

Death row executions nearly doubled this year compared to last in a rise driven largely by one state - Florida. On Thursday night, Florida executed its 19th person on death row this year, more than ...

Advocates hope they can convince developers to drop an Idaho-backed project to convert a jail facility into an execution ...

The murder that Christa Pike was convicted of demonstrated a brutality and callousness not often seen in women, let alone one so young.