Florida may soon expand its approved methods of execution to include firing squads and nitrogen gas, following a wave of ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio - Ohio lawmakers are trying to end the state’s years-long moratorium on executions by compelling state prison ...

A Gulf War Army veteran convicted of the shotgun slayings of his girlfriend and her three children has been scheduled for ...

Bruce Ward was among eight inmates Arkansas planned to execute in 2017, but his execution and three others were halted by the ...

A new book called The Volunteer is looking at the death penalty in America through the eyes of Nevada inmate Scott Dozier, who volunteered to be executed after being sentenced to death.

Each death penalty case is autho­rized by the DOJ headquarters in Washington, D.C., in con­sul­ta­tion with local U.S.

A fake doctor is accused of injecting a woman with a likely lethal dose of lidocaine in his Queens home on Friday, authorities said. Felipe Hoyos-Foronda, 38, ...

The Florida Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to block the scheduled April 8 execution of Michael Tanzi for the 2000 murder of ...

If a corrections bill in the Florida Legislature passes, the state could see death row prisoners executed by firing squad or ...

Jeffrey Hutchinson, 59, is set to die by lethal injection May 1 at Florida State Prison near the city of Starke. DeSantis, a ...

The longest-standing death row inmate in Arkansas has died while in a state prison, according to the Arkansas Department of ...