The Georgia Supreme Court ruled that COVID-19-focused for public access that had, temporarily, stalled executions for nine ...

The Supreme Court on Monday in Whitton v. Dixon sided with a death row inmate for the second time in less than a week, ...

The plan includes transporting inmates from Fort Leavenworth, Kansas to Federal Correctional Institution, Terre Haute in ...

Two executions on May 14 were the first in a series of five scheduled across the country over eight days.

The Justice Department has ordered the Bureau of Prisons to expand the number of ways inmates on federal death row could be executed, including adding firing squads and gas asphyxiation. The move is a ...

A federal judge on Thursday ruled that execution by nitrogen gas does not violate the constitutional ban on cruel and unusual ...

A failed execution in Tennessee left death row inmate Tony Carruthers bleeding and moaning, a witness says. Attorneys for ...

South Carolina's execution of a convicted murderer by firing squad marked the sixth use of capital punishment in the United States this year.

Death row inmate Tony Carruthers was in pain as the executioners tried to find a vein and there was "lots of blood," one of ...

Florida accounted for nearly half of all U.S. executions in 2025, a year that saw the most executions nationwide since 2009. A new Amnesty International report notes a 78% global increase in ...