President Donald Trump has told the DOJ to seek the death penalty in more cases, the department said, and acting Attorney ...

New Delhi: What’s a more humane way to execute death-row convicts? Lethal injections or death by hanging? It’s a question that confronted the Supreme Court as it heard an eight-year-old petition ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Tennessee plans to execute Byron Black on Tuesday for the 1988 murders of a woman and her two young daughters, despite concerns from his attorneys that a device implanted to ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee death row inmate Harold Wayne Nichols on Monday declined to choose between the electric chair and lethal injection for his Dec. 11 execution, meaning the state will ...

ATMORE, Ala. -- Thirteen minutes into his execution by injection, an Alabama inmate heaved and coughed and appeared to move during tests meant to determine consciousness. Ronald Bert Smith Jr., 45, ...