If two more executions proceed as planned before the end of June—one each in Florida and Mississippi—the same number of ...

Mississippi’s longest-serving death row inmate is seeking clemency from Gov. Tate Reeves. On Monday, attorneys for Richard ...

Corinna Lane, a former prosecutor, discusses the flaws in the US death penalty system, the pharmaceutical crisis that halted lethal injection, and the humanity of those on death row in her book ...

Indiana's lethal injections force doctors to break their "do no harm" oath while costing $450,000 per execution.

A German court will rule Monday on the case of a Syrian doctor accused of crimes against humanity under former dictator Bashar al-Assad's regime. Alaa Mousa, 40, is accused of torturing detainees at ...

A man with two death sentences chose lethal injection after attorneys referenced a problematic firing squad case. Lawyers ...

Mississippi Department of Corrections protocol requires execution staff to ensure that inmates are completely unconscious ...

Spartanburg County’s interim sheriff held a press conference to share his plans for the agency and its future. READ MORE: ...

JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - A federal judge will likely decide early next week whether the state can move forward with the ...

Richard Jordan, who is scheduled to be executed in Mississippi on June 25 argues against lethal-injection drug combination in federal court.

South Carolina man Stephen Stanko died by lethal injection3. Stanko was convicted of killing his friend and girlfriend in ...

A South Carolina man sent to death row twice for separate murders has been put to death by lethal injection in the state’s ...