The 57-year-old man sentenced to death in the murder of a Florida State University student in 1994 is scheduled to be executed at 6 p.m. –...
Anti-death penalty activists on Monday kicked off a campaign seeking clemency for the next person slated to be executed in Oklahoma. Emmanuel Littlejohn, who was convicted...
After state officials announced last week that Indiana will resume executions for the first time in over a decade, secrecy largely shrouds the new drug, pentobarbital,...
Rojem was convicted in 1985 of kidnapping, raping and murdering his former stepdaughter, 7-year-old Layla Cummings. His execution Thursday follows that of Ramiro Gonzales in Texas...
Bridget Townsend was just getting her start in life as a young woman in the small Texas town of Bandera when Ramiro Gonzales raped and killed...
The Rev. Jeff Hood of Little Rock, Arkansas, has witnessed seven executions, including the nation’s most recent, that of David Hosier in Missouri. Hood helps ‘make...
The 69-year-old Hosier was convicted of murder in the shooting death of Angela Gilpin, a married mother of two who was working on fixing her marriage....
GUEST EDITORIAL | Youngstown Vindicator Capital punishment hangs in an awkward state of limbo in Ohio these days. Yes, the death penalty remains on the books,...
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Alabama is preparing to use a new method of execution: nitrogen gas. Kenneth Eugene Smith, who survived the state’s previous attempt to put...
John Hanna | The Associated Press Kansas’ top court on Friday upheld the death sentence for a man convicted of fatally shooting three adults and a...
