The highest court in Texas on Tuesday issued a rare stay of execution for David Leonard Wood, who has always denied being the so-called Desert Killer and reiterated his innocence in a recent ...

FILE - This undated booking photo provided by the Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry shows Aaron Brian Gunches, who was convicted of murder in the 2002 killing of Ted ...

A former correctional officer offered a rare first-hand account of the execution of a death row inmate he participated in more than a half a century ago and his thoughts at the time. Now a ...

South Carolina on March 7 carried out the first U.S. execution by firing squad in 15 years. Three volunteer prison employees using rifles fatally shot Brad Sigmon – convicted of murdering his ex ...

BOISE (AP) — Death by firing squad could become Idaho’s primary method of execution under a bill headed to the governor’s desk this week. The Idaho Senate passed the bill on Wednesday ...

Eyewitnesses have given a chilling account of what happened in the minutes leading up to America's first execution by firing squad in 15 years. Brad Sigmon, 67, was executed on 7 March after being ...

The man was found hanging at his residence in Morena, Madhya Pradesh. (Screengrab) A chilling video of a man being beaten by his daughters as his wife holds him down has been going viral on social ...