Capital punishment remains legal throughout much of the United States. However, the form of execution does vary. These are ...

Arizona's botched executions have sparked a national debate over the use of lethal injections, with questions raised about ...

Before the lethal dose of pentobarbital was given, Thompson asked for forgiveness, while also stating: “There are no winners in this situation, it creates more victims and traumatizes more people 28 ...

Accusing the state of “reckless maladministration” of the lethal-injection process, an attorney for condemned killer Ronald ...

Texas carried out the nation’s first execution of the year, putting to death a man convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend in a 1998 double murder.

About an hour before the scheduled 6 p.m. execution, the U.S. Supreme Court — without explanation — issued a brief order ...

While capital punishment is rarely used in the U.S., other countries continue to carry out the method of final judgment. While typically reserved for the most extreme cases, some of these execution ...

Indiana currently has five people on death row, one of whom has been ruled mentally incompetent for execution.

A convicted murderer from Texas shared his final words with the families of his victims shortly before his execution. On ...