The state's second nitrogen hypoxia execution is set for Sept. 26, with more executions scheduled for October and November.

All death row inmates are convicted of murder along with an aggravating ... Their bodies were ultimately found in trash bags ...

Alabama's all-women's Julia Tutwiler Prison currently holds five women who are slated to be executed. They all share a common ...

Washington state is closing its death chamber this week, but South Carolina is scheduled to carry out its first execution ...

The son of an Alabama death row inmate and the widow of the last person executed in the state took part in a rally at the Alabama State House on Thursday calling for the Legislature to pass a bill ...

In 1991, Jim Dick broke the black soil of his North Dakota fields and struck a silver enigma—an inscribed armlet bearing the ...

A growing number of advocates, lawmakers and medical professionals are calling for clemency for a man on death row in Texas who ... Arizona ranked below Alabama and New Mexico for the title ...

A death row inmate in Missouri who has long claimed his innocence and is scheduled to be executed in less than one week asked ...

In South Carolina, the governor has the lone ability to grant clemency and reduce a death sentence to life in prison. However ...

A bipartisan group of Texas lawmakers urged Gov. Greg Abbott and the state's Board of Pardons and Paroles to halt the ...

Alabama is opposing a request to film the state’s next execution by nitrogen gas in an attempt to help courts evaluate whether the ...

[From: Society’s Final Solution: A History and Discussion of the Death Penalty, Laura E. Randa, ed., University Press of America, Inc., 1997. Reprinted with ...