Attorneys appealed to the Tennessee governor to pause all executions until next year to allow for courts to review a new ...

South Carolina plans to execute Mikal Mahdi on Friday for the murder of a police officer, draping a hood over his head and ...

A Florida death row inmate is scheduled to be killed by lethal injection on Tuesday after a failed appeal citing concerns ...

While manufacturers of FDA-approved injectable pentobarbital are warning states not to use the sedative in executions, some ...

Florida executed Michael Tanzi on Tuesday for the murder of a beloved Miami Herald employee who was attacked in broad ...

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Lawyers for convicted murderer Michael Tanzi say that his weight and health conditions could cause a lethal injection ...

A few more details are known about South Carolina's firing squad as the state prepares to carry out its second execution by ...

He had been faced with an impossible choice, if you can call it that. Die by lethal injection, electrocution, or firing squad? Firing squad, he concluded, seemed the most humane. Now, he found ...

James Edward Smith asked for a lump of dirt, but his request was denied. He settled for a cup of yogurt instead.

STARKE — A Florida man convicted of killing a Miami Herald employee who was abducted on her lunch break was executed Tuesday ...

Florida is set to execute the 48-year-old Tanzi by lethal injection for the 2000 rape and murder of former Miami Herald ...