Oscar Franklin Smith's last meal will be delivered to him hours before the planned execution. He is set to die by lethal ...

Gregory Hunt, convicted of the 1998 murder and sexual assault of Karen Lane, will argue that he killed but did not sexually ...

Benjamin Ritchie became the second person executed in Indiana in 15 years on Tuesday as, more than two decades after killing ...

James Edward Smith was sentenced to death by lethal injection in June 1990 following the murder of life insurance worker ...

Matthew Lee Johnson was executed in Texas on Tuesday for the 2012 murder of 76-year-old Nancy Harris, who was doused with ...

Tennessee is set to execute its first death row inmate in years. Here's which states have the death penalty and which methods are still practiced.

Death row inmate Benjamin Ritchie was executed by lethal injection shortly after midnight Tuesday at the Indiana State Prison ...

One of two men convicted in the brutal deaths of three Cracker Barrel employees in 1995 dies in infirmary, reports say.

Stephen Stanko, an inmate set to be put to death in June, is seeking secretive details about SC's execution methods following ...

South Carolina currently has 26 inmates on death row, including Stephen Stanko, whose death warrant was issued Friday by the ...

[From: Society’s Final Solution: A History and Discussion of the Death Penalty, Laura E. Randa, ed., University Press of America, Inc., 1997. Reprinted with ...