The state's next execution might not take place as scheduled. Tremane Wood was convicted of murder and sentenced to death in 2004. He was sentenced for stabbing a migrant farm worker from Montana to ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A man on death row in South Carolina who taunted investigators with messages written with a victim’s blood chose Friday to die by firing squad. Stephen Bryant, 44, will be the ...

TALLAHASSEE — Attorneys for condemned killer Frank Walls have asked the Florida Supreme Court to halt his scheduled execution next week, arguing he should be spared because he is intellectually ...

Politicians who advocate the death penalty rarely bother any more to pretend that executing one murderer will deter others. They still talk of bringing closure to those who mourn the victims. The ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Indiana’s next execution date is set. Barring a new legal move from his attorneys, Roy Lee Ward is slated to die in the early morning hours of Wednesday, Oct. 10. The Indiana ...

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey (R) on Monday set an October date for the state’s next execution by nitrogen gas despite pending lawsuits in her state and Arkansas from prisoners alleging the death penalty ...

JACKSON, Georgia — Georgia's Department of Corrections on Thursday released the last meal request for Stacey Humphreys, a death row inmate convicted of killing two women in Cobb County in 2003 who is ...

Family members whose loved ones were killed by a Florida death row inmate say they forgave him long ago and that his execution isn't about justice. Curtis Windom, 59, was executed by lethal injection ...