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 ...

A Georgia judge on Monday ordered a temporary pause to a December execution that was already put on hold, saying questions about the state’s clemency process must be addressed before Stacey Humphreys’ ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — In a story Sept. 29 about an attempt by Arkansas inmates to cancel their upcoming executions, The Associated Press reported erroneously the names of the three states in which ...

A 58-year-old Florida death row inmate claimed that prison officials used expired drugs and skimped on the doses for the last four executions in the state, according to a bombshell lawsuit filed a ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCSC/AP) - An inmate was executed by a firing squad for the murders he committed in 2004. Three prison employees, all with live ammunition, have volunteered to carry out the execution ...