Chadwick "Khalil" Willacy was executed by the State of Florida for a 1990 murder, despite legal challenges alleging the state ...

The Florida execution of James Hitchcock for the 1976 rape and murder of 13-year-old Cynthia Driggers was carried out April ...

Trump has directed the Justice Department to "prioritize" seeking the death penalty in federal cases.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee executed an inmate Tuesday without deactivating his implanted defibrillator, despite uncertainty about whether the device would shock his heart when the lethal chemicals ...

On Friday afternoon, the state of South Carolina carried out the first execution by firing squad in the United States in 15 years . As a method of execution, the firing squad had been largely ...

Complications with lethal injections in recent years have led to the revival of execution methods that had been previously ...

Within hours of the assassination of Charlie Kirk last week, Utah Gov. Spencer Cox began talking about pursuing the death penalty in the case. President Trump expressed his support for the move early ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear a Missouri murderer's bid to avoid execution by lethal injection because it might rupture blood-filled tumors on his body due to ...

April 24 (UPI) --The Department of Justice said on Friday it has reinstated the use of lethal injection and expanded the ...