Tennessee death row inmate Harold Wayne Nichols has declined to chose between the electric chair and lethal injection for his Dec. 11 execution, meaning the state will default to lethal ...

Larry Wayne Whitehead, 63, was an inmate at Donaldson prison. On Oct. 31, he was taken from the prison infirmary to UAB ...

States are moving in sharply different directions on the death penalty, with some looking to broaden when and how executions ...

All the research that has been conducted on the death penalty by unbiased and sophisticated researchers tells us quite ...

A divided five-member parole board in Oklahoma recommended clemency for a 46-year-old man on death row for the 2001 New ...

Tremane Wood's fate is in the hands of Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt who decides whether or not to commute his death sentence ...

The state of Alabama has proved that it is incapable of consistently carrying out executions that conform to the Eighth Amendment’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment. After a series of botched ...

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An Alabama Death Row inmate convicted of murdering a man over a drug debt by setting him alight is to be executed by nitrogen gas in the southern US state on Thursday.

Alabama executed an inmate using nitrogen gas Thursday night, despite the man’s claims of innocence and a legal fight calling the execution method unconstitutional. Anthony Todd Boyd, 54, died by ...

The man accused of murdering Iryna Zarutska faces federal charges that could result in the death penalty, according to new reports. Decarlos Brown Jr., 34, who was accused of fatally stabbing the ...

An Alabama death row inmate is set to become the seventh man executed in the state with the controversial method of nitrogen hypoxia. Anthony Todd Boyd, 54, is being executed on Thursday, Oct. 23, for ...