Demetrius Frazier became the fourth inmate in the US to be put to death by the method as he served his sentence for the 1991 ...

An man convicted of murdering a woman after breaking into her apartment as she slept was put to death Thursday evening in ...

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi announced she will direct the DOJ to pursue the death penalty at the state level against the ...

Steven Lawayne Nelson, 37, was convicted for the 2011 killing of Rev. Clint Dobson and put to death on Wednesday.

Higgins Gulch in western South Dakota was where the Lawrence County Sheriff’s Office found the body of 19-year-old Allan ...

Clarence Jordan has been a death row inmate for 47 years, yet his execution was never carried out. Jordan, now 68, was convicted of the 1977 murder and robbery of Houston grocery store worker, Joe ...

Indonesia has handed over to French authorities a man on death row for drug offences who will start his return to his home ...

An Oklahoma board has rejected clemency for a man sentenced to die for fatally shooting a woman during a 2005 home-invasion ...

Sentenced to death for killing two children in 1963, Leon Tice's sentence was commuted a month before Iowa abolished capital ...