Attorneys appealed to the Tennessee governor to pause all executions until next year to allow for courts to review a new ...

While manufacturers of FDA-approved injectable pentobarbital are warning states not to use the sedative in executions, some ...

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Benjamin Ritchie shot Beech Grove Police Officer Bill Toney in September 2000. According to court records, Ritchie jumped out of a stolen van after a police pursuit. Toney was chasing him when Ritchie ...

A South Carolina man on death row prepares to be put to death by firing squad, as his lawyer says the case is a matter of ...

A firing squad executed a South Carolina man who killed an off-duty police officer, the second time the rare execution method ...

A convicted cop killer who became the second death row inmate in South Carolina to die by firing squad chomped on a ribeye ...

Mikal Mahdi, who was convicted of two 2004 murders, including the death of an off-duty cop, chose an upscale final meal ahead ...

The state's execution protocols called for a hood to be pulled over Mahdi's head before three volunteer corrections staff ...

Powers was one of 46 death row inmates in Tennessee. He was convicted in the death of Shannon Sanderson in 1996.

A Florida death row inmate is scheduled to be killed by lethal injection on Tuesday after a failed appeal citing concerns ...

Mikal Mahdi was sentenced to death for the 2004 murder of Orangeburg police captain James Myers during a multi-state crime ...