Alabama is seeking to execute a man with lethal injection hours after his nitrogen execution was prevented from going forward.

Dusty Ray Spencer, 74, would become the oldest person put to death in Florida since the reinstatement of the death penalty in 1976, and the ninth man executed in Florida this year.

Correction officials confirmed Westville can accommodate firing squad executions as lawmakers, governor and the U.S. Justice ...

A judge handed down the death penalty on Monday to the man convicted of killing North Kansas City police officer Daniel Vasquez. Joshua Rocha was found guilty in October of first-degree murder in ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee death row inmate Harold Wayne Nichols on Monday declined to choose between the electric chair and lethal injection for his Dec. 11 execution, meaning the state will ...

A failed execution in Tennessee left death row inmate Tony Carruthers bleeding and moaning, a witness says. Attorneys for other death row inmates say it raises 'profound concerns.' ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Carruthers, who was sentenced to death for a 1994 triple murder, survived his date ...

Tennessee death row inmate Harold Wayne Nichols declined to choose between the electric chair and lethal injection before his Dec. 11 execution. Nichol declined to make his choice Nov. 10, a statement ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — As Tennessee eyes a wave of executions, attorneys for 33 death row inmates on Tuesday filed a lawsuit seeking to strike down the state’s new three-drug combination for lethal ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee death row inmate Harold Wayne Nichols on Monday declined to choose between the electric chair and lethal injection for his Dec. 11 execution, meaning the state will ...