A second death row inmate in South Carolina has chosen execution by firing squad. It comes just weeks after the first ...

Update at 8:19 p.m. ET. Execution Fails: According to reporters tweeting from inside the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester, Oklahoma, the execution of Clayton D. Lockett has failed. Lockett ...

Executions in the US are becoming increasingly cruel, with states adopting new methods such as nitrogen hypoxia and lethal ...

Mikal Mahdi died in an execution method that’s meant to be quick and certain by destroying the inmate’s heart. His lawyers ...

A bungled execution in Oklahoma is providing death penalty opponents with a fresh example of how lethal injections can go wrong. But the odds of successfully challenging the nation’s main form of ...

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A 23-year-old Florida woman is headed to prison after orchestrating a chilling betrayal, setting up a male friend to be ambushed and executed by her boyfriend just days after the couple reconciled.