Mikal Mahdi was sentenced to death for killing an off-duty Orangeburg police officer in Calhoun County, South Carolina.

A Florida man who killed an 8-year-old girl and her grandmother on a night in which he drank heavily and used drugs has been ...

The World Socialist Web Site reported on the first of this week’s executions, of Jessie Hoffman Jr., which took place Tuesday at Angola state prison in Louisiana. The state ended a 15-year ...

Prison officials said Edward James, 63, was pronounced dead at 8:15 p.m. after receiving a three-drug injection.

Inside a state prison building, witnesses watched Arizona execute Aaron Gunches without the troubles of the past.

Aaron Brian Gunches, 53, was executed on Wednesday, March 19, at 10 a.m. for the 2002 shooting death of Ted Price, his ...

Six men have died by court-ordered execution so far this year, and 14 other people are scheduled to be executed in eight ...

Arizona resumed executions Wednesday morning, after a 2-year moratorium that was prompted by three botched executions ...

Wendell Grissom received a lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary and was pronounced dead at 10:13 a.m.

He made Idaho “a shining example of how we can be tough on crime while ensuring those who want to become productive members of society have an off-ramp to a better life,” Gov. Brad Little said.

Idaho Department of Correction Director Josh Tewalt, who oversees the state’s executions, has so far declined to comment on the prison system’s transition to a firing squad as its primary option. But ...