The case against one of the Texas 7 death row inmates is on hold until a judge can hear a motion to recuse the Dallas County ...

Bruce Ward, a convicted murderer who was the longest-serving inmate on Arkansas' death row, has died, the state Department of ...

Paul Scott, who murdered Boca Raton florist James Alessi, was sentenced to death in 1979. He has survived five death warrants ...

Under the state's execution protocols, the firing squad will put a hood over Mahdi's head and shoot him in the heart ...

Mikal Mahdi’s execution came about a month after the first person in state history was killed in such a manner. Before that, ...

Florida on Tuesday evening executed a 48-year-old death row inmate who kidnapped and murdered a woman in 2000, marking the ...

Twenty-five years after confessing to the brutal rape and murder of Miami Herald employee Janet Acosta, Michael Tanzi is ...

President Trump's push for more federal and state executions marks a new chapter in the shifting politics of the death ...

Inmates convicted of capital crimes may be sentenced to death, although they may stay on death row for years as appeals work their ... who signs the death warrants. In 1972, the United States Supreme ...

Davis, who was also one of the inmates spared from execution in 2017, was hospitalized for several days after he attempted suicide. There are about 2,100 people on death row in the United States ...