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 ...

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 ...

More than 200 Civil rights groups urge Gov. Gavin Newsom to use his powers to commute California's more than 500 death ...

The longest-serving death row inmate in Mississippi's history, Richard Jordan, was executed Wednesday evening at the ...

Thomas Lee Gudinas, 51, was the seventh person put to death in Florida this year, with an eighth scheduled for next month.

Mississippi is set to carry out its 20th execution by lethal injection as Richard Jordan, who's sat on death row for 48 years ...