A Kentucky lawmaker is hoping his quest to limit the pardon powers of governors in his state has received a jolt of momentum from public attention over the flurry of pardons and commuted sentences ...

The South Carolina Supreme Court has set a March 7 date for the latest execution in the state’s suddenly busy death chamber ...

Demetrius Frazier apologized to the loved ones of one of the women he murdered and uttered two final words before he was ...

Demetrius Frazier became the fourth inmate in the US to be put to death by the method as he served his sentence for the 1991 ...

Alabama has carried out the nation’s 4th nitrogen gas execution, putting a man to death for the killing of a woman who was ...

The flurry of directives that Attorney General Pam Bondi signed shifted investigative resources from foreign malfeasance to ...

Demetrius Frazier, 52, was pronounced dead at 6:36 p.m. CST at a south Alabama prison for his murder conviction in the 1991 ...

Today in this animated cartoon video we look at the final moments before a prisoner goes in the United States! In this infographics video we learn about the final meal and last words of inmates in ...

Alabama became the first state to carry out executions with nitrogen gas when three inmates were put to death using the ...

An Oklahoma board rejected clemency on Wednesday for a man sentenced to die for fatally shooting a woman during a 2005 ...

A Texas man convicted of beating and suffocating a Dallas area pastor in his own church is facing execution on Wednesday ...

Ending capital punishment had been a dormant issue in Indiana, but advocates now believe a Republican-led effort to abolish ...