Geoffrey Todd West, 50, was put to death at William C Holman Correctional Facility in Alabama. He was convicted of the murder of Margaret Parrish Berry, a mother of two.

The United States has two executions scheduled for Thursday -- one in Alabama and the other in Texas -- during a year that has seen an uptick in inmates being put to death.

West was found guilty of capital murder in the 1997 killing of Margaret Parrish Berry, who was 33 at the time. When asked by ...

Geoffrey West was executed by nitrogen gas in Alabama Thursday, followed by Blaine Milam in Texas, as Trump signed a memorandum on the death penalty. | TAG24 ...

(Handout/Alabama Department of Corrections/AFP) A man convicted of killing a gas station clerk was put to death by nitrogen gas in Alabama, one of two executions carried out in the United States on ...

A man on Alabama's death row has maintained his innocence for three decades and chaired an inmate-founded advocacy group to ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala.-Convicted murderer Tommy Arthur-called the "Houdini" of death row by some after escaping seven prior execution dates-was scheduled to be put to death Thursday evening in Alabama, as ...