Gregory Hunt was executed for the slaying of Karen Sanders Lane. She was 32 when murdered in her friend's apartment.

A “vicious” killer and rapist was executed by the state of Alabama on Thursday, becoming the fourth death row inmate in the U.S. to be die by with nitrogen hypoxia. Demetrius Terrence Frazier ...

Arkansas death row inmate Latavious Johnson died of unknown causes at the Varner SuperMax prison on Friday afternoon, according to the state’s department of corrections. He was in his 40s. The ...

Boyd Holbrook (“A Complete Unknown,” “Logan,” “The Bikeriders”) will play Jeffrey Reed, a death row inmate who decides to go on a hunger strike and whose constant rejection of his ...

The next execution is set for June 12. The lull has been reported on before. "Oklahoma’s death row is dwindling with each execution," the online news site Oklahoma Watch reported in December.

A South Carolina man on death row who had been considering death by firing squad opted Friday for lethal injection instead after another inmate appeared to linger before dying when bullets ...

A convicted killer in Utah who developed dementia during his time on death row is competent enough to be executed, a state judge ruled on Friday. Ralph Leroy Menzies, 67, was found guilty and ...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma prosecutors will retry longtime death row inmate Richard Glossip a third time for his role in the 1997 killing of his former boss, Attorney General Gentner Drummond ...

Mississippi's oldest prisoner on death row has filed an emergency stay of execution with the U.S. Supreme Court, asking for a last-minute reprieve. Richard Gerald Jordan, who turned 79 on May 25 ...