A judge has ruled that Tennessee prison officials must grant expanded access to media members to view state-run executions ...

Autopsy reveals difficulty with IV insertions during executions in Arizona, raising concerns about medical practices for ...

Senate Bill 11 was introduced as lethal injection drugs have become more expensive and hard to get, leading some states to ...

Pike was sentenced to death for the 1995 torture and killing of Colleen Slemmer, a fellow student at a Knoxville job program ...

Pike has been on death row since 1996. She murdered a woman in Knoxville with the help of her then-boyfriend. She is the only ...

Oklahoma State Sen. Nikki Nice is advocating for a moratorium on the death penalty, something done last year by a Republican ...

Gentner Drummond has filed a request to move forward with Simpson’s execution and is opposing clemency. Drummond has argued ...

Alabama death penalty advocates are urging Governor Kay Ivey to halt the execution of 75-year-old Charles "Sonny" Burton, a ...

Iran had planned to put a 26-year-old protester to death amid the wave of unrest in the country, but apparently stood down ...

Iran’s plans to execute Erfan Soltani, 26, for participating in anti-government protests may be on hold. A 26-year-old ...

At least one of the five members of the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles may need to be temporarily replaced in the case of a death-row inmate seeking clemency.