The Mississippi Supreme Court ruled Thursday it would not set an exectuion date for one prisoner until his open petition is ...

An Alabama inmate scheduled to be put to death Thursday by lethal injection for the shooting death of his friend's father urged young people to take a pause before making life-altering mistakes.

Lawyers for the first inmate scheduled to be put to death with nitrogen gas argued in Monday court filings that Alabama is seeking to make him the “test case” for an experimental execution ...

EL PASO, Texas (KFOX) — A Texas man convicted of killing a 5-year-old girl in 2001 will be executed by lethal injection on Thursday. David Santiago Renteria will be executed after 5 p.m. in ...

An Alabama inmate convicted of killing a man during a 1993 robbery when he was a teenager was executed Thursday by lethal injection. Casey McWhorter, 49, was pronounced dead at 6:56 p.m. at a ...

Alabama Inmate Asks Judge to Block First Nitrogen Gas Execution MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Lawyers for the first inmate scheduled to be put to death with nitrogen gas argued in Monday court filings ...