It was the second time Missouri officials had denied someone their spiritual adviser in their dying moments. Yet, the state ...

South Carolina-based journalist Jeffrey Collins observed back-to-back executions in 2025 after the state revived the death penalty following a 13-year pause ...

This image provided by the Idaho Department of Correction shows Thomas Eugene Creech on Jan. 9, 2009. Creech, Idaho's longest-serving death row inmate, is scheduled to be executed Feb. 28, 2024 in ...

Idaho’s death row at the Idaho Maximum Security Institution south of Boise houses male prisoners sentenced to death. Female death row prisoners are housed at the Women’s Correctional Center in ...

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Senate Bill 11 was introduced as lethal injection drugs have become more expensive and hard to get, leading some states to ...

The justices ruled 8-1 in the case of a Texas death-row prisoner. A near unanimous Supreme Court on Thursday said a death-row inmate's spiritual adviser should be able to pray aloud and lay hands on ...

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT Clayton Lockett was executed iafter he was convicted of murder, rape and kidnapping - and his ...

At just 19, Gray's violent streak escalated when he savagely murdered his 16-year-old girlfriend, Elda Louise Prince, in ...

Former Florida State Prison Warden Ron McAndrew argues that Florida's rapid scheduling of executions is pushing the state's ...

Byron Black was executed for murders he committed in 1988. Black had a defibrillator in his chest and the Tennessee State Supreme Court ruled last week that it could be carried out without the device ...

ATMORE, Ala. -- An Alabama man convicted of helping to burn a man alive in 1993 over a $200 drug debt was executed by nitrogen gas on Thursday. Anthony Boyd, 54, was pronounced dead at 6:33 p.m. at ...