TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- A man convicted of killing two women, one in Florida and another in California, has been scheduled for execution in Florida under a death warrant signed Tuesday by Republican Gov.

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 ...

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

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 ...

AND ANOTHER SOUTH CAROLINA INMATE WAS EXECUTED BY FIRING SQUAD YESTERDAY. MICHAEL MARTY WAS SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING AN ...

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

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

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

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