Tennessee’s sole female death row inmate, Christa Pike, is set to be the first woman executed in the state in more than 200 ...

Attorney General Dave Yost blasted a moratorium on Ohio executions and called for lawmakers to allow new execution methods, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Arizona State Sen. Kevin Payne has a very bad idea. Earlier this month, Payne introduced a proposal in the Arizona Senate to ask ...

A judge ruled Friday that Tennessee prison officials must grant expanded access to media members to view state-run executions, after a coalition of news organizations including The Associated Press ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio—For Ohio to resume executions, state lawmakers would need to pass a “shield law” to prevent pharmaceutical companies from discovering that their drugs were used in lethal injections, ...

Florida is in the middle of a record pace of executions. That pace is holding up other court cases and preventing attorneys ...

Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman said Monday that his office is urging the Franklin Circuit Court to dismiss a case ...

Ronald Palmer Heath is scheduled to be executed tomorrow, Tuesday, February 10, at 6 p.m. ET, following a final sweep of denials from the Florida Supreme Court. Unless a federal court steps in or ...

A bill expanding Indiana’s execution methods was significantly amended Tuesday after lawmakers voted to remove nitrogen hypoxia as an option and added provisions on media access and mental health ...

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