A new billboard in Baton Rouge has a simple message with a big goal: eliminate a controversial execution method from the ...

A Florida man who admitted killing his girlfriend’s baby daughter nearly 30 years ago has finally been executed after his ...

The brutal crime for which Lukehart was executed cannot be separated from the life that produced him. The evidence presented ...

The plan includes transporting inmates from Fort Leavenworth, Kansas to Federal Correctional Institution, Terre Haute in ...

The constitutional prohibition of ‘cruel and unusual punishment’ has shaped legal discourse around failed executions, but ...

Andrew Richard Lukehart was executed by lethal injection on Tuesday, June 2, for the 1996 murder of his girlfriend's daughter ...

The Supreme Court on Monday in Whitton v. Dixon sided with a death row inmate for the second time in less than a week, ...

Andrew Lukehart beat Gabrielle Hanshaw to death while he was on probation for beating a previous girlfriend's daughter so ...

A federal judge on Thursday ruled that execution by nitrogen gas does not violate the constitutional ban on cruel and unusual ...

Tennessee has called off the execution of a death row inmate convicted of triple murder after his executioners failed to insert a backup intravenous line, prompting the governor to grant a one-year ...

May 21 (UPI) --Florida death row inmate Richard Knight was executed Thursday, 26 years after murdering a pregnant woman and her 4-year-old daughter, state corrections officials announced. Knight, 47, ...

Tennessee halted the execution of death row inmate Tony Carruthers on Thursday, his attorney said, after the officers tasked with establishing an intravenous line through which to administer lethal ...