A man convicted of fatally shooting a police officer with his own service weapon during a traffic stop has been executed in ...

Billy Kearse, convicted of killing a Fort Pierce officer in 1991, faces execution today. His attorneys filed a last-minute ...

Billy Kearse, on Florida's death row for the 1991 murder of Fort Pierce Police Officer Danny Parrish, was executed by lethal ...

As Melvin Trotter faces execution today for a 1986 killing in Florida, his attorneys argue his intellectual disability has ...

Did an innocent man come within 36 hours of being executed? That’s the question raised by a May 10 N.C. Supreme Court decision that stopped last week’s scheduled execution of Jerry Wayne Conner.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Robert Roberson speaks during an interview with The Associated Press at the Allan B. Polunsky Unit prison in Livingston, Texas, ...

Arron Lawson, who was found guilty of killing four people in 2017, is in court challenging his death sentence even as the State of Ohio has him scheduled for execution on Jan. 6, although, due to ...

The Trump administration was moving ahead early Tuesday with the execution of the first federal prison inmate in 17 years after a divided Supreme Court reversed lower courts and ruled federal ...

HOUSTON (AP) — Texas’ top criminal court on Thursday again paused the execution of Robert Roberson, just days before he was set to become the first person in the U.S. put to death for a murder ...