The scheduled execution of a 74-year-old Florida death row inmate is renewing debate over the use of capital punishment and ...

The request comes days after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to review Jeffrey Weisheit’s case, ending years of state and ...

Death row inmate Tony Carruthers was in pain as the executioners tried to find a vein and there was "lots of blood," one of his attorneys said.

Christa Gail Pike is set to become the first woman in the US to be executed in over 200 years on September 30, after she was ...

If three executions move forward in Arizona, Tennessee and Florida, the U.S. will see the deadliest week for the death ...

Jeffery Lee's supporters urged Alabama to "choose life" after he mentored other death row inmates through a Christian ...

In a rare ruling for a condemned prisoner, the justices would not let Alabama use a contested method of execution. By Adam Liptak Adam Liptak is the chief legal correspondent and host of The Docket.

The Florida Supreme Court has rejected a death row inmate’s latest attempt to overturn his conviction, ruling Thursday that ...

The execution of an Alabama inmate set to die next week by breathing in nitrogen gas is constitutional and can go forward, a federal judge said. Jeffery Lee is set to die on June 11 at William C.

A Tennessee attorney representing the state’s only female death row inmate has raised fresh concerns following last week’s ...