NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Nine Tennessee death row inmates are suing the state over its push for a new round of lethal ...

Mikal Mahdi murdered an off-duty police officer by shooting him eight times and dousing him in diesel before setting him ...

If his execution proceeds, Mahdi will be the second South Carolinian to die by firing squad in the last 40 days, following ...

South Carolina death row inmate has asked to die by firing squad just five weeks after the state carried out its first ...

Mikal Mahdi, who killed a South Carolina police officer during a multi-state crime spree, has chosen to die by firing squad.

Late last year, Hobbs fired the retired judge she had appointed to conduct the review, and the state’s corrections department ...

Last year, a new execution method was used in the U.S. for the first time since 1982. Here’s a look at how people have been ...

Arkansas currently has 25 people on death row. Over recent decades ... a small group of execution opponents held a vigil ...

Catholics in Arkansas express concern over a bill proposing nitrogen gas as a method of execution, a controversial step in the state's death penalty debate.

A man accused of killing Joel Osteen's great-aunt waited almost two decades in the Harris County Jail without a trial.

A former British prison officer has revealed the three ways death row prisoners "normally" react before their execution. Alex South has worked at some of the UK's toughest and most notorious ...