A May 20 execution has been scheduled for an Arizona man convicted of murder for fatally setting a man on fire during a 2002 ...

Billy Leon Kearse spent 29 years on death row for killing Fort Pierce police Sgt. Danny Parrish in 1991 — and the case likely ...

A man is scheduled to be put to death more than 20 years after he set two people on fire, killing one, following a dispute at ...

Retired FBI profiler Candice DeLong says Karla Faye Tucker's troubled childhood and drug use doomed her long before the 1983 pickax murders that sent her to death row.

The Florida Supreme Court has halted the scheduled execution of James Duckett, who was convicted of raping and killing an ...

The execution of a former Florida police officer convicted of raping and murdering an 11-year-old girl has been temporarily ...

The Florida Supreme Court halted the execution of James Duckett, a former officer convicted of murder, pending DNA testing.

Tennessee’s sole female death row inmate, Christa Pike, is set to be the first woman executed in the state in more than 200 ...

Some names will be familiar to the Supreme Court in the latest case involving a Black death row inmate from Mississippi.

Slidell server Brooke Buchler’s body was found dumped in one of the dilapidated buildings at the abandoned Bywater Navy base ...

Death penalty cases cost taxpayers significantly more than cases where inmates serve life sentences. Capital cases are more ...

Michael Addison, who killed a police officer in 2006, argues his sentence cannot stand because the state abolished capital ...