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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. TALLAHASSEE — Accusing the state of “reckless maladministration” of the lethal-injection process, an attorney for condemned killer ...

An execution in the state of Alabama is raising more questions about a controversial drug used in lethal injections. Late last night, Alabama executed Ronald Bert Smith, a convicted murderer. In that ...

Attorneys for death row inmate Chadwick Willacy have filed an emergency petition with the Florida Supreme Court, alleging the state is systematically blocking access to public records regarding lethal ...

Missouri: Michael Worthington, scheduled to die Aug. 6 from a single dose of compounded pentobarbital for the rape and killing of a suburban St. Louis neighbor in 1995. Texas: Willie Trottie, ...

The day before her wedding, a 31-year-old woman discussed how she is marrying a man on death row about two weeks before he is ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee on Tuesday said he will not intervene to stop the execution of Harold Wayne Nichols. Nichols, 64, is scheduled to die by lethal injection on Thursday ...

Texas carried out the first US execution of 2026 on January 28. Charles Victor Thompson, 55, died by lethal injection at the state penitentiary in Huntsville, marking another round in the state ...