TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Attorneys for Death Row inmate Samuel Smithers on Friday appealed to the Florida Supreme Court after a circuit judge rejected arguments that the 72-year-old inmate’s scheduled ...

According to a release from the Alabama Department of Corrections, West was pronounced dead by a physician on Thursday, Sept. 25, at 6:22 p.m. by nitrogen hypoxia at the William C. Holman Correctional ...

Texas and Alabama have executed death row inmates within minutes of each other, one for killing a 13-month-old baby during an "exorcism" and the other for shooting a mother of two in the head during a ...

A man convicted of killing a gas station clerk was put to death by nitrogen gas in Alabama, one of two executions carried out in the United States on Thursday. The Barron's news department was not ...

Texas death row inmate Robert Roberson will not petition for clemency ahead of his scheduled execution in three weeks and will instead focus on obtaining a new trial in his capital murder conviction, ...