made an agreement to extradite Frazier to Alabama death row in November 2011. Nitrogen hypoxia is an execution method in which the inmate breathes in pure nitrogen gas through a mask ...

Larry Wayne Whitehead, 62, was convicted in 1996 for the death of Albertville police officer and detective Andrew Whitten. Whitten was set to testify against Whitehead in an upcoming theft trial, ...

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 excruciating pain. Michael Wade Nance ...

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.

Paul Loggins opened Loggins Restaurant on a cold, snowy day in February 1949 in Tyler. Many friends and locals doubted its success due to its location on the outskirts of town. The restaurant ...

A Florida man convicted of killing a husband and wife at a remote farm in an attack witnessed by the couple’s toddler was put to death Thursday in the state’s first execution of the year.

"The time to end the death ... Alabama last week for the 1991 rape and murder of a 41-year-old -- having been killed by nitrogen hypoxia. According to the Death Penalty Information Center, 12 ...

Now 20 years later, those who know him say he's a deeply faithful man who has become so gentle, he recently hand-raised a baby lizard in his cell on Texas Death Row. "The man I was 20 years ago is ...

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 ...

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 ...