A Fulton County judge has temporarily halted the execution of a Georgia inmate convicted of murdering two female real estate ...

Stacey Humphreys​, 52, was convicted of malice murder and other crimes in the 2003 shooting deaths of Cyndi Williams, 33, and ...

Frank Walls, who confessed to five Okaloosa County homicides, was executed Thursday, 38 years after the brutal murders of an Okaloosa County couple.

Execution warrant for Stacey Ian Humphreys expires as parties await decision over potential conflicts on clemency board.

The Utah Supreme Court has blocked a death row inmate's upcoming execution, after the inmate's attorneys argued in an extensive legal back-and-forth with the state that their client's worsening ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — The State of Tennessee has set the execution date for Christa Pike, who was convicted of brutally stabbing and killing a fellow Knoxville Job Corps worker in 1995. According ...

The execution of Frank Walls marked the highest number of state-sanctioned killings by a single state in more than 15 years.

STARKE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida man convicted of killing his estranged wife’s sister and parents and setting their house on fire is scheduled to put to death Wednesday, which would be a record 12th ...

A Utah man who had his execution blocked after developing dementia during his nearly 40 years on death row died of apparent natural causes, according to the state's Department of Corrections. Ralph ...

An Iranian boxer sentenced to death on charges of membership of an outlawed group is at imminent risk of execution after his ...