Byron Black is scheduled to be given a lethal injection after a legal battle about whether a working defibrillator in his ...

Lawyers for Byron Black, found guilty of three murders, have argued that an execution may be more painful because of his ...

Tennessee is gearing up for an execution that experts say would likely mark the first time a man has been put to death with a ...

What Florida has done is turn decades of precedent in death penalty jurisprudence on its head. In that jurisprudence, people ...

Tennessee Supreme Court allows execution of inmate with heart device, as legal and ethical issues are considered.

Florida has carried out one-third of the 27 executions so far this year. With 10 more state killings planned, the US is on ...

Twenty-six men have died by court-ordered execution so far this year in the U.S., and 10 other people are scheduled to be put ...

State lawmakers tell News 19 that connections are key when it comes to policymaking, even with officials in Washington, D.C.

Edward Zakrzewski, a former Eglin Air Force airman, was sentenced to death for killing his wife and two children in 1994.

The death of Anthony “Tony” Mitchell, who died of hypothermia and neglect after two weeks inside what federal prosecutors ...

An Marion County circuit judge stayed the execution of David Lee Roberts earlier this month pending the results of a psychological examination. Judge Lee Carter issued an order on July 10 suspending ...

Alabama’s next execution is temporarily on pause in order to assess if the inmate in question is mentally competent enough to ...