A South Carolina inmate whose best friend and four other inmates have been put to death in less than a year appears to want ...

A death row doctor has revealed some unsettling details about a controversial execution method that is only allowed in ...

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

Back in 2011, a sudden change to Texas law meant that death row inmates would no longer be granted their final meal requests.

A South Carolina inmate whose best friend and four other inmates have been put to death in less than a year appears to want to die himself.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

[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 ...