ATMORE, Ala. -- Thirteen minutes into his execution by injection, an Alabama inmate heaved and coughed and appeared to move during tests meant to determine consciousness. Ronald Bert Smith Jr., 45 ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Tennessee plans to execute Byron Black on Tuesday for the 1988 murders of a woman and her two young daughters, despite concerns from his attorneys that a device implanted to ...

Complications with lethal injections in recent years have led to the revival of execution methods that had been previously ...

Little is known about how Indiana acquired pentobarbital, a drug that state officials have used twice for executions in the last year. The drug is expected to be used again for death row inmate Roy ...

Killer says goodbye to friend in final words before execution for teen’s murder - James Ernest Hitchcock was executed for the ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — A federal judge Wednesday told lawyers for a South Carolina inmate scheduled to die in two days that he doesn’t plan to stop the execution because they didn’t have evidence ...

52-year-old Leroy McGill is scheduled to be put to death by lethal injection at 10 a.m. on Wednesday, May 20.