Tennessee death row inmate Harold Wayne Nichols declined to choose between the electric chair and lethal injection before his Dec. 11 execution. Nichol declined to make his choice Nov. 10, a statement ...

Chuck Thompson has been on Texas Death Row for 27 years and is set to be executed in January. Credit: April Towery For Charles Victor Thompson, the one constant in his life has been the almost three ...

Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt has spared the life of a death row inmate just before he was set to receive a lethal injection on Thursday, commuting the man’s sentence to life in prison without parole.

The South Carolina House voted Wednesday, May 5, to add a firing squad to the state’s execution methods amid a lack of lethal-injection drugs—a measure meant to jump-start executions in a state that ...

FIRST ON FOX — Two federal inmates previously on death row — one a crooked New Orleans cop, the other behind a multi-state killing spree — have been transferred to a notorious "supermax" prison in ...

The Supreme Court announced on Monday it will take up a death row inmate’s challenge over allegations that the dismissal of ...

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A South Carolina death row inmate convicted of killing a man and writing a message to investigators with the victim's blood more than 20 years ago elected on Friday to die by firing squad. Stephen ...

The U.S. Supreme Court is set on Wednesday to hear a bid by Alabama officials to pursue the execution of an inmate convicted of a 1997 murder who a lower court found to be intellectually disabled and ...

An electrocardiogram (ECG) monitoring the heart of a Tennessee inmate executed by lethal injection in August reportedly showed "sustained cardiac activity" for nearly two minutes after Byron Black was ...

Oklahoma leads the nation in executing death row inmates. Now, multiple Oklahoma-based organizations are joining the effort ...