Dominick Occhicone is scheduled to face execution on July 28 for the 1986 cold-blooded murders of his ex-girlfriend's parents ...

Christa Pike's lawyers have raised concerns following the 'botched' attempt to execute death row inmate Tony Carruthers ...

An 80-year-old man faces execution next month after Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a death warrant for a double murder ...

For more than an hour, Tony Carruthers lay strapped to an execution gurney in Tennessee's death chamber as his executioners struggled to find a vein. They tried his arms, shoulders, feet, chest and ...

A federal judge on Tuesday permanently blocked Alabama from executing an inmate with nitrogen gas after declaring the method ...

Emily C Marks finds method proposed to kill Jeffery Lee violates ban on cruel and unusual punishment ...

A federal judge permanently blocked Alabama from using nitrogen gas for executions, ruling the method violates the ban on cruel and unusual punishment.

America’s death penalty debate raged Thursday after it took nearly two hours for authorities in Arizona to execute a prisoner who lost a Supreme Court battle challenging the experimental lethal drug ...

Lower courts had earlier blocked the execution method, finding it likely violates the constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment.

The US Supreme Court is under increasing pressure to consider halting death sentences by lethal injection after a convicted Arizona killer took two hours to die. Opponents and supporters of capital ...

Adam Marshall said he was helping administer medical aid to protesters at Delaney Hall last month when U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents accused him of having weapons outside the ...