Days after the Supreme Court upheld a block on an execution by nitrogen hypoxia in Alabama,  an Arkansas-based critic of the ...

The impending execution of a man by firing squad in Utah was blocked by the state’s Supreme Court on Friday after his attorneys argued he should be spared because he has dementia.Ralph Leroy Menzies, ...

The unsigned decision for now spares Jeffery Lee, a convicted murderer, and could lead to a broader fight over the relatively ...

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Samuel L. Smithers' final appeal to halt his execution has reached the nation's highest court, one day after the Florida Supreme Court affirmed his death sentence. Smithers' attorneys filed a petition ...