A federal district court Friday denied an Alabama death row inmate’s request to delay his scheduled June 11 execution, saying ...

Three American inmates are set to be executed on Wednesday and Thursday in what stands to become the deadliest week for the death penalty in the U.S. so far this year. Arizona is set to execute Leroy ...

A death row inmate who believes he has already died three times and been resurrected has been deemed too mentally ill to face execution. John Richard Wood, 56, has been in prison for more than 25 ...

A federal appeals court has temporarily halted Thursday’s scheduled execution of Texas death row inmate Edward Busby, citing concerns over his eligibility for capital punishment because of ...

Lisa Montgomery, who was sentenced to death for murdering a pregnant woman in 2004, was executed by lethal injection at the ...