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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Derrick Dearman appeared to be high on drugs in his Alabama prison in the days leading up to his execution. The convicted killer raged in phone calls and emails, anguishing over how his willingness to ...

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, ...

RUSK COUNTY, Texas — A death row inmate from East Texas is scheduled to be executed this week for his role in the December 2008 killing of a toddler in Rusk County. Blaine Keith Milam, 35, has his ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A judge in South Carolina has ruled a death row inmate’s beliefs that most laws are unconstitutional and citizens have an absolute right to defend their property to the death are ...