“He’s cussed out most of our employees tonight, so we’re not going to give him the opportunity to just spew that profanity.”

Lawyers for a Missouri man scheduled to be executed Tuesday evening filed another appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court that alleged there were racial bias and constitutional errors at his […]

A witness whose testimony was instrumental in putting a man on death row has made a bombshell confession days before the convicted man was scheduled for lethal injection. On Wednesday, […]

At least 14 states have used pentobarbital in executions, according to the Death Penalty Information Center in Washington, D.C.

The convicted killer of an 18-year-old woman was executed in Texas on what would have been his victim's 41st birthday.

An Idaho man has been sentenced to death in connection with the murder of his first wife and two of his second wife's children.

"It was murder and it was intentional," the victim's mother said. "If Massachusetts had the death penalty that’s what I would want."

An Iranian rapper has received a literal death sentence for daring to criticize the country's oppressive and brutal regime in his music.

Barring any last-minute stay, the 73-year-old, one of the nation's longest-serving death row inmates, will die by lethal injection Wednesday.

"If the Israeli government decided to execute 13 people because they are gay, the Western media would go berserk."