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Marcellus Williams, 55, is scheduled to be executed on Sept. 24 for the 1998 stabbing death of Lisha Gayle in…
Marcellus Williams would have been sentenced to life in prison without parole on Thursday. Instead, his Sept. 24 execution date…
Convicted killer Kenneth Eugene Smith was put to death using nitrogen gas, the United States' first execution by a new…
Alabama plans to execute Kenneth Eugene Smith using nitrogen gas, a method the state says is humane but credit slam…
Attorneys for a Missouri man scheduled to be executed next month are seeking a new hearing, citing a new alibi.
There were 18 executions in the U.S. in 2022, the fewest in any pre-pandemic year since 1991 after 11 were…
Alabama’s prison system said Friday that the execution Joe Nathan James Jr. was delayed because of the time it took…
After Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee halted a lethal injection in April because he learned the drugs hadn't been tested as…
Richard Bernard Moore's death warrant in South Carolina has renewed interest in how a state plans to shoot an inmate…
South Carolina’s highest court issued a temporary stay blocking the state from executing Richard Bernard Moore on April 29 by…
South Carolina’s corrections agency said last month that it finished developing protocols for firing squad executions.
Richard Bernard Moore has been on death row for over 20 years after he was convicted of killing a convenience…
South Carolina's death chamber has capacity to carry out firing-squad executions, making it one of four states to authorize the…
After avoiding execution in February, Willie B. Smith III was put to death Thursday after the SCOTUS rejected a request…
Johnson’s attorneys argued that Johnson’s IQ, which is in the 70s, puts him at the same cognitive function as a…
Four years after the execution of Ledell Lee, DNA testing has revealed that the genetic material on the murder evidence…
The Supreme Court denied a request filed by Brandon Bernard to halt his execution, clearing the way for the execution…
Federal officials are making moves to expand the ways that federal death row inmates can be killed before Joe Biden…
The heartbreaking story of George Stinney, a 14-year-old boy who was wrongfully executed by South Carolina for a crime he…
Pamela Woods confronted Gov. Kay Ivey on Thursday, a week after the state's chief executive allowed his execution despite desperate…