Lawyers for a South Carolina death row inmate will be in federal court Wednesday trying to convince a judge that the state is not properly carrying out lethal injections or firing squad ...

I’m looking forward to getting the last pieces of paperwork that say he’s been executed to put into the book and never having ...

Gregory Hunt was convicted of killing Karen Lane, a woman he had been dating for about a month, according to court records.

A man convicted of beating a woman to death nearly 37 years ago is scheduled to be executed Tuesday in Alabama in what will be the nation’s sixth execution with nitrogen ...

Most of the 23 states that still have an active death penalty allow a certain number of journalists to witness executions, as ...

Prison officials served death row inmate Oscar Franklin Smith his last meal Wednesday night, about 16 hours before he's scheduled to die by lethal injection. Smith, 75, requested hotdogs ...

Meanwhile, Daniel Troya, Ricardo Sanchez and 19 other federal inmates are fighting a transfer from Indiana to a 'supermax' ...

The American Civil Liberties Union sought a preliminary injunction to stop the Trump administration from moving the prisoners ...

A federal judge in Washington, D.C., won’t stop the U.S. government from moving 21 federal prisoners from Terre Haute to a ...

Florida state attorney Tom Bakkedahl says he is opening an investigation and hopes to seek the death penalty against Daniel Troya and Ricardo Sanchez, Jr., for the murders of four family members in ...

A southern Indiana couple was recently sentenced for their roles in a fentanyl dealing operation that resulted in the death of a toddler. Arcinial Montreal Watt, 36, of Evansville, has been sentenced ...

A federal judge has denied a legal attempt, for now, to prevent the U.S. government from transferring former death row inmates to the "Supermax" in Colorado.