Demetrius Frazier became the fourth inmate in the US to be put to death by the method as he served his sentence for the 1991 ...

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi announced she will direct the DOJ to pursue the death penalty at the state level against the ...

Steven Lawayne Nelson, 37, was convicted for the 2011 killing of Rev. Clint Dobson and put to death on Wednesday.

Higgins Gulch in western South Dakota was where the Lawrence County Sheriff’s Office found the body of 19-year-old Allan ...

This is not in any way lessening due process for those who are convicted and are facing the death penalty,” said Rep. Bruce Skaug, R-Nampa, the bill’s lead sponsor.

An Oklahoma board has rejected clemency for a man sentenced to die for fatally shooting a woman during a 2005 home-invasion ...

The Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board on Wednesday voted 4-1 to deny clemency to a death row inmate who said last month he is ...

Sentenced to death for killing two children in 1963, Leon Tice's sentence was commuted a month before Iowa abolished capital ...

Clarence Jordan has been a death row inmate for 47 years, yet his execution was never carried out. Jordan, now 68, was convicted of the 1977 murder and robbery of Houston grocery store worker, Joe ...