Death Penalty

A firing squad has executed a South Carolina man who killed an off-duty police officer decades ago. It is the second time the rare execution method has been used by the state in the past five weeks.

The Texas appeals court ruling was upheld, even though the case is similar to that of an Oklahoma man, whose murder conviction the high court recently overturned.

States are increasingly moving away from lethal injection, in favor of using nitrogen gas during executions. Here’s what to know about the controversial practice.

Four states — Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi and Oklahoma — specifically authorize execution by nitrogen hypoxia

A Texas appeals court on Tuesday halted the execution of a man who has spent more than 30 years on death row and had been set to die by lethal injection this week over the killings of six girls and young women found buried in the desert near El Paso.

A federal appeals court has tossed an Amarillo woman’s death sentence after it found that local prosecutors had failed to reveal that their primary trial witness was a paid informant.

Brad Sigmon, convicted in a 2002 double murder, chose a method that is rarely used. Utah carried out the last firing squad execution in 2010.

A terminally ill man who spent over 30 years on death row in Louisiana for the killing of his stepson has died.

Richard Lee Tabler, 46, was given a lethal injection at the state penitentiary in Huntsville. He is the second person executed in Texas in a little over a week.

Alabama is planning to carry out its fourth execution with nitrogen gas. Demetrius Terrence Frazier is scheduled to be executed Thursday night at a south Alabama prison.

A Texas man convicted of beating and suffocating a Dallas area pastor in his own church is facing scheduled execution Wednesday evening.

A man scheduled to be executed Wednesday more than a decade after being convicted of killing an Arlington pastor says he didn’t do it.

An Arizona death row prisoner has asked the state’s highest court to skip legal formalities and schedule his execution earlier than authorities were aiming for.

Next month, Biden, a practicing Catholic, will meet with Pope Francis, who recently called for prayers for U.S. death row inmates in hopes their sentences would be commuted.

A Texas man facing execution did not appear at the State Capitol after two failed attempts by lawmakers to issue a subpoena for his testimony.

The extraordinary legal saga over whether death row inmate Robert Roberson should be put to death is not over. The state has already asked for an execution date to be set, but now, 온라인카지노사이트 5’s Maria Guerrero reports there’s another attempt to have Roberson testify before lawmakers at the Texas State Capitol.

A Texas House committee on Tuesday subpoenaed death row inmate Robert Roberson to testify Friday at the Capitol.

An Alabama man convicted in the 1994 killing of a female hitchhiker cursed at the prison warden and made obscene gestures before being put to death in the nation’s third execution using nitrogen gas.

The Texas Supreme Court ruled the death penalty may proceed in the case of Robert Roberson, the man on death row for murdering his two-year-old daughter. The case captured international attention when lawmakers used subpoena power to delay the execution. Candace Sweat has the latest.

South Carolina has put Richard Moore to death by lethal injection for the fatal shooting of a store clerk in Spartanburg.