The US carried out a double state killing on Thursday, with two states executing intellectually disabled death row inmates.

A federal judge has ruled against a man on Georgia’s death row who argued that lethal injection could cause him excruciating ...

When the state of Illinois shut down the century-old, maximum-security prison last year, nearly four of every five inmates ended up being sent to less-secure sites, The Associated Press found.

A remorseful death row inmate pleaded for forgiveness and mothed one final message before being put to death in Texas Thursday, 20 years after he killed his strip club manager and another man.

Two men convicted of murder were executed Thursday night, marking the fourth and fifth executions in the United States this ...

A Tennessee death row prisoner who murdered a teen couple from Chickamauga, Georgia has declared a hunger strike, saying he ...

A Texas man who murdered his strip club manager and another man, then later prompted a massive lockdown of the state prison ...

A Texas man who murdered a strip club manager and smuggled a cellphone into death row to threaten a lawmaker is set to be ...

The Supreme Court declined to issue a stay of execution or take up an appeal by James Ford. He is set to die by lethal ...

Two states are set to see pauses on executions end as Arizona, Louisiana and South Carolina gave execution dates to three men ...

A Tennessee death row prisoner has declared a hunger strike, saying he is protesting issues with medical care, the quality of ...

Those housed in the O'Daniel Unit in Gatesville, including such names as Melissa Lucio, have had their lives touched by a ...