Three brothers have been charged with involuntary manslaughter. They’re accused of tying down their 18-year-old brother who ...

Mikal Mahdi, who pleaded guilty to murder for killing a police officer in 2004, is scheduled to be executed April 11.

A South Carolina death row inmate on Friday chose execution by firing squad, just five weeks after the state carried out its ...

Arizona has executed a 53-year-old man convicted of kidnapping and murdering his girlfriend's former partner in 2002, marking ...

Jessie Hoffman Jr., 46, was declared dead shortly after 7 p.m. after he inhaled the lethal gas through a fitted full-faced ...

The suit claims the state's lethal injection protocol constitutes violations of the state and federal constitutions.

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has overturned the injunction that blocked the execution of death row inmate, Jessie Hoffman. Hoffman was sentenced to death after ...

An autopsy report for a South Carolina man executed with the state’s lethal injection protocol raises more questions about whether the process is an unusually cruel and painful method of execution.

The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has blocked the execution of convicted El Paso 'Desert Killer' David Leonard Wood, amid lack of DNA evidence.

Wood has been on Texas Death Row for nearly four decades even though no DNA evidence linked him to the murders of six women and girls in El Paso in 1987. “I’m accused of killing six people ...

man is accused by police of killing a teenager he found in bed with his wife. Jonathan Belk, of Dunlap, is accused of stabbing Billy J. Floyd, 18, to death after coming home and finding Floyd in ...

(Photo by John Moore/Getty Images) The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals' brief order on Tuesday recognized the claims in death row inmate David Leonard Woods appeal and granted an indefinite stay ...