Anthony Boyd was the eighth person executed by nitrogen gas since Alabama began using the method last year. His execution ...

Justice Sonia Sotomayor said Anthony Todd Boyd should not be the eight man executed with the controversial method of nitrogen ...

Richard Kenneth Djerf, 55, died by lethal injection on the morning of Friday, Oct. 17 at the Arizona State Prison Complex in ...

Victims of the inmates include a family of four, a college student kidnapped from her bedroom, and a state trooper who was ambushed in his driveway.

Richard Djerf is scheduled to be executed on Oct. 17 for the 1993 murders of four members of the Luna family. Djerf has ...

A Missouri man who was convicted of fatally shooting a state trooper 20 years ago was put to death on Tuesday, marking the ...

The busiest death chamber in the country is located inside the maximum-security prison in Huntsville, Texas, known as the ...

For the third time in less than a year, Indiana officials will execute a convicted murderer. This time it will be Roy Lee Ward, the Perry County man who killed 15-year-old Heritage Hills High School ...

Kenneth Eugene Smith, convicted for a murder-for-hire committed in 1988, and scheduled to be executed in the U.S. state of Alabama by asphyxiation using pure nitrogen, poses for an undated booking ...

Iryna Zarutska, who reportedly went to the US to escape the war in Ukraine, was stabbed and killed by Decarlos Brown Jr in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Bishops in multiple U.S. states are leading efforts to spare the lives of condemned prisoners facing execution.