Former Florida State Prison Warden Ron McAndrew argues that Florida's rapid scheduling of executions is pushing the state's ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — Tennessee will step up its number of executions next year. Four people are scheduled to be executed in 2026, which follows three executions this year. It comes after Governor ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – One year ago, condemned prisoner Michael Morales was set to be executed for the brutal murder and rape of a Lodi teenager. Instead, he won a reprieve that eventually became a ...

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 ...

Attorneys for condemned killer Frank Walls filed an emergency motion to issue a stay of his scheduled Dec. 18 execution.

WASHINGTON — Tensions on the Supreme Court over America’s use of the death penalty boiled over on Wednesday as the justices appeared badly split in a case challenging Oklahoma’s lethal injection ...

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 ...

Harold Wayne Nichols confessed to killing Karen Pulley, a 20-year-old college student, as well as raping several other women in the Chattanooga area. He was sentenced to death in 1990.

UPDATE WEDNESDAY: A Knox County chancellor said Wednesday he'll review - behind closed doors - information sought by a death row inmate about the state's lethal injection drug. By agreement, the state ...

Florida executed 58-year-old Frank Walls by lethal injection Thursday night, breaking a record: it was the state's 19th ...