Execution

A new report by a think tank examining executions in the United States says death penalty cases show a long history of racial disparity, from who is executed to where and for what crimes.

A man who killed a Kansas girl more than two decades ago has been executed in Indiana, the fifth federal inmate put to death this year and second this week

The U.S. government has set an execution date for the only Native American on federal death row.

The U.S. government has put to death an Iowa chemistry student-turned-meth kingpin convicted of killing two children and three adults

The United States has carried out its second federal execution in three days, killing by lethal injection a Kansas man whose lawyers contended he had dementia

A U.S. judge has halted the execution of a federal death row inmate whose lawyers argue suffers from dementia

The federal government has carried out its first execution in almost two decades

A U.S. district judge has ordered a new delay in federal executions, hours before the first lethal injection was scheduled to be carried out at a federal prison in Indiana