Chadwick "Khalil" Willacy was executed by the State of Florida for a 1990 murder, despite legal challenges alleging the state ...

Trump has directed the Justice Department to "prioritize" seeking the death penalty in federal cases.

The Department of Justice said on Friday it reinstated the use of lethal injection and expanded the execution protocol to ...

Christa Pike, the only woman on death row in Tennessee, launched a lawsuit against the state in a bid to stop her scheduled ...

Chadwick Willacy maintained his innocence before Florida executed him for the first-degree murder of elderly neighbor Marlys ...

The United States Department of Justice has announced a sweeping return to aggressive enforcement of the death penalty, including the reintroduction of firing squads and lethal injection, in what ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Tennessee plans to execute Byron Black on Tuesday for the 1988 murders of a woman and her two young daughters, despite concerns from his attorneys that a device implanted to ...

ATMORE, Ala. -- Thirteen minutes into his execution by injection, an Alabama inmate heaved and coughed and appeared to move during tests meant to determine consciousness. Ronald Bert Smith Jr., 45, ...

New Delhi: What’s a more humane way to execute death-row convicts? Lethal injections or death by hanging? It’s a question that confronted the Supreme Court as it heard an eight-year-old petition ...

The Justice Department also reauthorized the use of a death penalty drug, and will seek to shorten the length of some legal ...