A Florida woman was convicted in connection with the death of a social media model to whom she had given silicone injections, ...

Nance sued Georgia’s prison system claiming lethal injection would cause him excruciating pain because of his medical history ...

McALESTER, Okla. (AP) — Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt has spared the life of a death row inmate just before he was set to receive a lethal injection on Thursday, commuting the man’s sentence to life in ...

Attorneys for death row inmate Chadwick Willacy have filed an emergency petition with the Florida Supreme Court, alleging the ...

Executions in the US are becoming increasingly cruel, with states adopting new methods such as nitrogen hypoxia and lethal ...

Arizona's Senate passed a measure that would allow voters to decide on firing squad executions, a method proponents call ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Joshua Rocha was sentenced to death by lethal injection on Monday after he was found guilty of ...

Advocates hope they can convince developers to drop an Idaho-backed project to convert a jail facility into an execution ...

Tennessee death row inmate Harold Wayne Nichols on Monday declined to choose between the electric chair and lethal injection for his Dec. 11 execution, meaning the state will default to lethal ...

An Alabama inmate was executed by lethal injection on Thursday evening, the state's attorney general confirmed, marking the state's third execution this year. Keith Edmund Gavin, 64, was convicted on ...

Dutch psychiatrist Menno Oosterhoff is under scrutiny after providing euthanasia to patients with mental health issues, ...