An Alabama death row inmate who raped and murdered a woman in 1991 was executed this week using nitrogen gas, making him the ...

Anesthesiologist Dr Brian McAlary testified that he witnessed clear 'evidence of distress' during a death row execution via ...

The South Carolina Supreme Court has set a March 7 date for the latest execution in the state’s suddenly busy death chamber ...

Texas continues to lead other states on capital punishment. But the decline in new death sentences and executions reached a ...

The newly inaugurated president's directive fulfills a key part of Project 2025's right-wing mandate for his administration.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump signed a sweeping execution order Monday on the death penalty that directs the attorney general to “take all necessary and lawful action” to ensure that states ...

Steven Lawayne Nelson, 37, was given the lethal injection for killing 28-year-old Reverend Clint Dobson at NorthPointe ...

Frazier was convicted of capital murder for breaking into a Birmingham woman's apartment, stealing cash, raping her at gunpoint, and killing her.