An Oklahoma County jail inmate accused of pistol-whipping a woman for her car outside a casino has died. Everett D. Edwards, ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Attorneys for a Tennessee death row inmate have launched a last-ditch effort to prevent his Aug. 5 ...

Prison officials served death row inmate Oscar Franklin Smith his last meal Wednesday night, about 16 hours before he's scheduled to die by lethal injection. Smith, 75, requested hotdogs, tater ...

Byron James Shepard was in t State Penitentiary in McAlester, awaiting execution for the fatal shooting of a Tecumseh police officer.

The federal government can now pursue the death penalty against the Boulder attack suspect following the death of a victim.

Next month, the state of Florida will officially be allowed to use new means of executing prisoners on death row — with some ...

The court had earlier vacated Darrell Robinson's conviction and death sentence in a brutal quadruple murder in Rapides Parish ...

In a 6-3 ruling Thursday by Justice Sonia Sotomayor, the court said federal courts can review Ruben Gutierrez’s challenge to ...

The Rev. Jeff Hood has witnessed 11 executions: four in Oklahoma, three in Alabama, two in Texas, one in Missouri and one in ...