Death row inmates in five states are scheduled to be put to death in the span of one week, an unusually high number of ...

Freddie Owens was put to death last Friday in South Carolina, while Tuesday saw the executions of Marcellus Williams in ...

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

Miller was convicted of murdering three co-workers during two back-to-back shootings one morning in 1999 in suburban ...

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

Despicable baby killer Travis Mullis gave his haunting final words following a 16-year spell on death row, before being being ...

This story includes graphic descriptions of crimes committed against an infant. Texas executed Travis James Mullis on Tuesday for killing his infant son in 2008, making him the fourth inmate executed ...

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

Kenneth Meers of Oklahoma City "simply did not have a mean bone in his body." The man convicted of killing him is set to be ...

Travis Mullis, 38, was executed Tuesday at the Huntsville Unit in Huntsville, Texas, for the killing of his 3-month-old son more than 16 years ago. Mullis was pronounced dead at 7:01 p.m. with just ...

If this week’s remaining executions are completed, the United States will have reached 1,600 executions since the death ...