Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Florida’s plan to execute two people in one day raises concerns about dignity, error and staff ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A June 5 ruling from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit upheld Indiana's execution witness law, rejecting a request ...

The Tennessee Supreme Court denied death row inmate Darrell Hines’ request to require the Tennessee Department of Correction to disclose whether Dr. Mark Fowler will participate in Hines’ scheduled ...

More than 560 people still face death sentences in California, despite a longstanding moratorium on executions.

The US state of Arkansas is racing to execute eight death row inmates in 10 days next month to beat the expiration date on a hard-to-get drug used in lethal injections. Death penalty opponents have ...

As Georgia plans for its first execution in two years, a trove of records provides us with new information — and raises new ...

William Frances Silvia was the 13th prisoner put to death this year in Florida, which has two more executions scheduled in September.

Aug. 13 (UPI) --Three states executed death row inmates on Thursday, marking the first time in more than 15 years that three executions were carried out in the United States on the same day. The three ...

On Wednesday, Idaho became the first state to use firing squads as the primary method of capital punishment. Idaho isn’t the only state to use firing squads, but the only one to use them as a primary ...

In most of the country, executions are a thing of the past. But one state has been carrying them out at a record pace. Across a two-lane highway from Florida State Prison, people prayed as an ...