Louisiana had gone more than a decade without any executions. Now, state leaders are ramping up efforts to carry out those sentences for death row inmates.

Using NOAA data, Stacker summarized the last 100 hurricane seasons in the Atlantic Basin. See which years and storms broke ...

Twenty-three men have died by court-ordered execution so far this year in the U.S., and seven other people are scheduled to ...

A South Carolina man sent to death row twice for separate murders was put to death Friday by lethal injection in the state’s sixth execution in nine months.

Rep. Matt Simpson's HB20 would add a 22nd factor to Alabama's capital murder law, targeting those who "knowingly create great ...

In the death chambers of the Mississippi Delta, on a rainy night in an Indiana penitentiary, and in the early hours at an ...

Before the procedure took place, he was asked whether he had any final words, to which he replied 'no' before giving a ...

Lawyers for a death row inmate who killed two people on the Grand Strand will be in federal court Wednesday trying to ...

Lawyers for a South Carolina death row inmate are heading to federal court to argue that the state is not properly carrying ...

Hunt's execution marks Alabama's third this year, on pace to match the six it carried out last year, and the fifth time it ...

Alabama has executed a man by nitrogen gas for the beating death of a woman in 1988. Gregory Hunt was pronounced dead at a south Alabama prison Tuesday. He was convicted of capital murder in ...

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