death penalty

Fresh details have emerged about the 13 federal executions that were carried out in the final six months of Donald Trump’s presidency.

Alabama is seeking to become the first state to execute a prisoner by making him breathe pure nitrogen.

Alabama executed a man on Friday for the 2001 beating death of a woman as the state resumed lethal injections following a pause to review procedures.

A court in central China says a Chinese kindergarten teacher who poisoned 25 of her students, killing one, has been executed.

The man had spent 29 years behind bars for murder, child abuse and sexual assault convictions in the death of his girlfriend’s daughter.

Jurors reached a guilty verdict in the federal death penalty case of a 34-year-old man who killed eight people on a Manhattan bike path five years ago in a bid, prosecutors said, to impress a terrorist group.

Unless Missouri Gov. Mike Parson grants clemency, Amber McLaughlin, 49, will become the first openly transgender woman executed in the U.S. She is scheduled to die by injection Tuesday for killing a former girlfriend in 2003.

An annual report on capital punishment says public support and use of the death penalty continued a more than two-decade decline in the U.S. in 2022.

Three hours after the U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way for Alabama officials to execute convicted workplace shooter Alan Eugene Miller, the execution was called off over time and medical concerns.

The last-minute reprieve came nearly three hours after a divided U.S. Supreme Court had cleared the way for the execution to begin.

Florida is currently undergoing one of its most notable death penalty trials in history. A South Florida jury is tasked with deciding the fate of the man who opened fire in Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Feb. 14, 2018, killing 17 people and injuring 17 others. The confessed Parkland shooter, now 23-year-old Nikolas Cruz, will either face the death…

Alabama told a federal judge that it could be ready as soon as next week to use a new, untried execution method called nitrogen hypoxia to carry out a death sentence. Nitrogen hypoxia is a proposed execution method in which death would be caused by forcing the inmate to breathe only nitrogen, thereby depriving the person of oxygen needed to...

An Alabama inmate convicted of killing his former girlfriend decades ago was executed Thursday night despite pleas from the victim’s family to spare his life. Joe Nathan James Jr. received a lethal injection at a south Alabama prison after the U.S. Supreme Court denied his request for a stay. James was convicted and sentenced to death in the 1994 shooting...