The execution of Alan Eugene Miller marks the fifth this week in the US - its greatest use of capital punishment since 2003.

Death row inmates in five states have been put to death in the span of one week. This was the first time in more than 20 years that five executions ...

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

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

Emmanuel Littlejohn was executed in Oklahoma by lethal injection. He was convicted of the 1992 murder of Kenneth Meers, a convenience store owner.

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...