The US carried out a double state killing on Thursday, with two states executing intellectually disabled death row inmates.

Michael Wade Nance, on Georgia's death row for a 1993 murder, argued that lethal injection could cause him severe pain due to ...

A federal judge has ruled against a man on Georgia’s death row who argued that lethal injection could cause him excruciating ...

A remorseful death row inmate pleaded for forgiveness and mouthed one final message before being put to death in Texas on ...

Texas has executed Richard Lee Tabler by lethal injection after he was found guilty of the murders of two people ...

During his 20 years behind bars, Richard Lee Tabler says he's found God and leads a ministry of Death Row inmates. He's ...

Demetrius Terrence Frazier's final meal was a popular takeaway choice, after spending three decades in prison.

A Kentucky lawmaker is hoping his quest to limit the pardon powers of governors in his state has received a jolt of momentum from public attention over the flurry of pardons and commuted sentences ...

Bowman's execution would be South Carolina's third in four months as it works through a backlog of death row inmates whose appeals were exhausted during a lengthy delay in lethal injections.

Nine states have put more inmates to death. But since the unintentional execution pause, South Carolina’s death row population has dwindled. The state had 63 condemned inmates in early 2011. It ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — After the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the final appeal of a South Carolina inmate, he decided ... more than half of his life on death row. He cannot in good conscience ...