The Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board voted 3-2 on Wednesday to recommend the governor spare the life of a man scheduled to be ...

Libby Adame was sentenced to 15 years to life in prison for administering an injection that caused a fatal embolism ...

States are moving in sharply different directions on the death penalty, with some looking to broaden when and how executions ...

A NURSE who murdered 10 patients and attempted to kill 27 others to lighten his workload has been sentenced to life in prison ...

The court was told the nurse used morphine and midazolam, a muscle relaxant sometimes used for executions in the U.S.

Beshear said legal reason prevent him from signing a death warrant for a man convicted of murder, but Coleman claims those ...

A South Carolina man’s death row execution is being attempted to be stopped by his lawyers by arguing his brain damage was never considered by the judge who sentenced him to die. According to his ...

Members of the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board decided in a 3-2 vote on Wednesday to recommend that the governor grant ...

Harold Nichols has sued to review the state's lethal injection records ahead of his execution Dec. 11 and after issues with ...

The suit claims that Tennessee’s lethal injection and electrocution methods of executions prevent witnesses (public and press ...

A palliative nurse was convicted on Wednesday of the murder of 10 patients with lethal injections and the attempted murder of 27 others and was handed a life sentence by a German court.

Missouri would be first state to force execution by lethal gas. July 10, 2013— -- Twenty-one inmates on Missouri's death row have sued the state's Department of Corrections in federal court, ...