Charles Victor Thompson was executed for the 1998 murders of his ex-girlfriend Glenda Dennise Hayslip and her new boyfriend ...

A Texas man who once escaped custody and spent three days on the run after being sentenced to death for fatally shooting his ...

Arizona's botched executions have sparked a national debate over the use of lethal injections, with questions raised about ...

Midazolam—a sedative used in three botched executions this year—is included in two of four drug combinations that can now be used by Oklahoma executioners ...

Accusing the state of “reckless maladministration” of the lethal-injection process, an attorney for condemned killer Ronald ...

South Carolina has put inmate Marion Bowman Jr. to death in the state’s third execution since September.

An Alabama inmate was executed by lethal injection on Thursday evening, the state's attorney general confirmed, marking the state's third execution this year. Keith Edmund Gavin, 64, was convicted on ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee death row inmate Harold Wayne Nichols on Monday declined to choose between the electric chair and lethal injection for his Dec. 11 execution, meaning the state will ...