Aileen Wuornos, once dubbed the “Damsel of Death” and “Queen of Serial Killers,” remains one of the most notorious figures in ...

DALLAS — Just one week before he was scheduled to be put to death, the Court of Criminal Appeals blocked Robert Roberson’s execution, sending the case back to trial court. State Representative Lacey ...

Inside the death chamber at the Indiana State Prison in Michigan City. (Photo provided by the Indiana Department of Correction) Death row inmate Roy Lee Ward was executed by lethal injection early ...

A Florida killer known as the “Deacon of Death” was executed on Tuesday for the murders of two women whose bodies were found dumped in a pond in 1996, continuing a record 14 executions carried out by ...

Editor’s Note: Lance Shockley was executed on Oct. 14 at Eastern Reception, Diagnostic and Correctional Center in Bonne Terre, Missouri. He was declared dead at 6:13 p.m Central time. For Father’s Day ...

Editor's note: This database contains descriptions of violent crimes. There are 113 people sitting on Ohio's death row. Some were sentenced to death decades ago, for murders committed in the 1980s and ...

The Mississippi Supreme Court denied a last-minute emergency petition to stay the execution of death row inmate Charles Ray Crawford. Crawford's attorneys argued his original trial lawyers improperly ...