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Michael Wade Nance, on Georgia's death row for a 1993 murder, argued that lethal injection could cause him severe pain due to ...

The US carried out a double state killing on Thursday, with two states executing intellectually disabled death row inmates.

A federal judge rejected a Georgia death row inmate's request to be executed by firing squad because he claims that lethal injection could cause him severe pain.

The man accused of running away after he drove over a Pinellas County sheriff’s deputy two years ago at a construction site pleaded guilty Friday, leaving his punishment for a judge to decide.

A federal judge has ruled against a man on Georgia’s death row who argued that lethal injection could cause him excruciating pain and suggested a firing squad a ...

Nine states have put more inmates to death. But since the unintentional pause, the death row population has dwindled to 29 currently, compared with 63 in early 2011. About 20 have been taken off ...

A remorseful death row inmate pleaded for forgiveness and mouthed one final message before being put to death in Texas on Thursday, 20 years after he killed his strip club manager and another man.

He had also asked that his appeals be dropped and that he be put to death, though he had gone back and forth on the decision multiple times, the AP reported. “More than twenty years after his ...