Connecticut companies would be banned from selling drugs used in capital punishment under bill opposed by state hospitals.

David Duncan, a meticulous retired judge, led an inquest into Arizona's execution protocols -- until it was subverted by politics ...

Connecticut death penalty opponents want lawmakers to bar corporations in the state from making drugs or devices used in ...

The South Carolina Supreme Court has set a March 7 date for the latest execution in the state’s suddenly busy death chamber.

Steven Lawayne Nelson, 37, was convicted for the 2011 killing of Rev. Clint Dobson and put to death on Wednesday.

Convicted murderer James Ford is scheduled to be put to death by lethal injection after a unanimously rejected appeal to the ...

Brad Sigmon was convicted of beating the parents of his ex-girlfriend to death with a baseball in Greenville County, South Carolina ...

Medical experts and death row inmates file legal briefs challenging legality of Arizona's execution drugs ahead of March ...

Idaho House Bill 37 aims to make the firing squad the state's primary means of execution as prosecutors prepare to try Bryan ...

The clock has been reset for a Canadian who has been on death row in Montana for 42 years after state legislators defeated an ...

The justices on Friday rejected a request from Brad Sigmon's lawyers to delay setting a date for his death until they get autopsy results from the inmate killed in last week's lethal injection ...