Christa Pike, the only woman on death row in Tennessee, launched a lawsuit against the state in a bid to stop her scheduled ...

Chadwick Scott Willacy, 58, was executed by lethal injection Tuesday evening at Florida State Prison in Bradford County for ...

A second death row inmate in South Carolina has chosen execution by firing squad. It comes just weeks after the first ...

Christa Gail Pike, who has been on Tennessee’s death row for decades, is now actively fighting to stop her execution as it is ...

Chadwick Willacy maintained his innocence before Florida executed him for the first-degree murder of elderly neighbor Marlys ...

The murder that Christa Pike was convicted of demonstrated a brutality and callousness not often seen in women, let alone one ...

A condemned killer's attempt to stop his execution on the grounds he could experience a terrifying sensation of suffocation is the latest argument directed at whether use of a lethal drug will create ...

Executions then resumed in 1977, when double murderer Gary Gilmore was put to death by firing squad. A steady rise in ...

With a death warrant already signed, attorneys for James Hitchcock filed a critical reply brief with the Florida Supreme ...

A new Idaho law exempts execution procedures from judicial review and public scrutiny, raising concerns about transparency and accountability in the death penalty system.

The Death Penalty Information Center released data showing that death sentences and executions for individuals aged 18-20 at ...