Tennessee officials halted the planned execution of death row inmate Tony Carruthers on Thursday after prison staff spent ...

A Florida man convicted of fatally stabbing his cousin’s girlfriend and the couple’s 4-year-old daughter was put to death ...

A man convicted of burning a Phoenix resident to death in a horrific 2002 apartment attack was executed Wednesday in ...

An NBC News analysis of final statements from prisoners on Texas’ death row shows that some convey a readiness to die. Others ...

Tennessee's scheduled execution of death row prisoner Tony Carruthers was suspended after prison officials were unable to ...

A Florida man convicted of fatally stabbing of his cousin’s girlfriend and the couple’s 4-year-old daughter in Coral Springs ...

Rainwater pooled along the pavement outside Florida State Prison as the state executed Richard Knight at 6:13 p.m. Thursday ...

Tennessee Governor Bill Lee granted death row inmate Tony Carruthers a one-year reprieve from execution following a failed ...

Tennessee prison officials are refusing to confirm that they will not be using expired lethal injection drugs to execute Tony ...

Edward Busby was executed by lethal injection Thursday, reinforcing Texas’ position as the nation's leader in capital ...

America is returning to firing squad executions after failing to find a more humane way to carry out the death penalty.

Attorneys for the Nevada Department of Corrections admitted in a Wednesday filing that they have none of the drugs they need ...