When Florida executes James “Ernie” Hitchcock on Thursday evening, the state will be ending the life of a prisoner who has ...

Trump's DOJ announced last week it is bringing the practice back to federal death row. Death penalty critics are concerned ...

James Ernest Hitchcock, a Florida man convicted of murdering his brother's 13-year-old stepdaughter in 1976, was executed at ...

Tennessee is scheduled to execute death row inmate Edmund Zagorski using the electric chair Nov. 1, the first time the chair has been used here in 11 years. Gov. Bill Haslam delayed the execution to ...

A 58-year-old Florida death row inmate claimed that prison officials used expired drugs and skimped on the doses for the last four executions in the state, according to a bombshell lawsuit filed a ...

Pursuit of a remote-operated system to carry out the death penalty has been unsuccessful to date as the prison preps for a ...

The development of Idaho’s execution procedures by the director of state prisons will be shielded from the public and not subject to court review under a bill the Legislature sent to the governor’s ...

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