Nearly 50 years on death row had inflicted "extremely severe" mental and physical pain on Iwao Hakamata, a judge said.

The justices left in place a Texas appeals court ruling that upheld the murder conviction and death sentence for Areli ...

Four executions are scheduled this year with a new lethal injection protocol and the ethical and legal debate is intensifying ...

Aaron Gunches, 53, was pronounced dead at 10.33am on Wednesday. He offered no resistance as the lethal injection was administered.

Arizona is scheduled to execute its first prisoner in more than two years. Aaron Brian Gunches was scheduled to be lethally ...

A man convicted in 1980 for a triple murder will remain on death row after a federal court upheld his sentence.

Three elderly Kentuckians, 75-year-old Charlie Gross, 74-year-old Lula Gross and 79-year-old Sam Chaney were killed in 1979 ...

Naomi Yavneh Klos is one of their leaders. NAOMI YAVNEH KLOS: You know, the idea that our state would put people to death by this method that killed millions of our relatives, you know, we felt that ...

The order came just over 48 hours before Wood, 67, was set to be executed by lethal injection on Thursday. Wood has been on Texas Death Row for nearly four decades even though no DNA evidence linked ...

Steph Curry has been a longtime fan favorite, and Snoop Dogg happens to be one of the biggest names on that list. The ...

But it’s not just the defense filing motions – prosecutors have demanded that the defense stop referencing the state’s intent to apply the death penalty to a conviction as “an attempt to ...

FROM A JUDGE ON WHETHER THE USE OF GAS TO EXECUTE A DEATH ROW INMATE IS CONSTITUTIONAL. JESSE HOFFMAN IS ACCUSED OF RAPING AND KILLING A WOMAN NEARLY 30 YEARS AGO IN SAINT TAMMANY. AND THE CASE ...