Autopsy reveals difficulty with IV insertions during executions in Arizona, raising concerns about medical practices for ...

Christa Pike, A Tennessee woman on death row, sues state claiming lethal injection protocol would cause cruel death due to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Inmate Stephen Bryant has chosen to die by firing squad, the chair for which is pictured on the left. (Photo courtesy of the S.C.

Death row inmate William Lewis Reece has been returned to Oklahoma to face execution for the 1997 murder of 19-year-old Tiffany Johnston.

Lawyers for a South Carolina death row inmate are asking the state Supreme Court to halt his execution, arguing that the judge who sentenced him never considered the extent of his brain damage caused ...

Tennessee death row inmate Harold Wayne Nichols declined to choose between the electric chair and lethal injection before his Dec. 11 execution. Nichol declined to make his choice Nov. 10, a statement ...

Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt has spared the life of a death row inmate just before he was set to receive a lethal injection on Thursday, commuting the man’s sentence to life in prison without parole.

TEGNA Inc., WBIR's parent company, was among the plaintiffs that filed suit via the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the ...

STARKE, Fla. -- A man convicted of fatally shooting a man and his girlfriend during a home invasion robbery was put to death Thursday evening in Florida's 19th execution this year. Frank Athen Walls, ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WRDW/WAGT) - A South Carolina death row inmate who is set to become the 50th man executed since the state reinstated the death penalty 40 years ago will die by firing squad. Stephen ...