Alan Eugene Miller became the second death row inmate in the U.S. to be executed using nitrogen gas on Thursday evening, nearly 25 years after the murders of ...

The United States is an outlier among developed nations when it comes to the ultimate punishment. One state has executed by ...

The ruling by Tokyo's Shizuoka District Court brought an end to Iwao Hamakada's status as the world's longest serving death ...

Miller was convicted of murdering Terry Jarvis, Lee Holdbrooks and Christopher Yancy in two workplace shootings on Aug. 5, ...

Oklahoma is set to execute Emmanuel Littlejohn in the murder of Kenneth Meers in a 1992 robbery that turned fatal. Littlejohn ...

Some progressives re-upped calls to abolish the death penalty, while conservatives lauded the execution for providing closure ...

The state of Missouri has executed Marcellus Williams despite new evidence suggesting he was wrongfully convicted. Williams ...

A six-day spate of executions in the U.S. began Friday with the South Carolina execution of Freddie Owens amid doubts over ...

A series of executions in the U.S. continued Tuesday, when two men were given lethal injections within an hour of each other.

Travis Mullis said he killed his son after he had reached a "breaking point" as the infant would not stop crying.

The US Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to spare the life of Williams, who spent nearly a quarter-century on Missouri’s death ...