Execution

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...

Members of a Texas House committee on Tuesday repeatedly pressed a prosecutor to use his authority to stop the April 27 execution of Melissa Lucio, whose conviction is being questioned amid growing doubts about whether she fatally beat her 2-year-old daughter.

During hours of relentless questioning, Melissa Lucio more than 100 times had denied fatally beating her 2-year-old daughter.

Julius Jones was scheduled to be executed at 5 p.m. ET in Oklahoma on Thursday.

Jones, who is on death row for the July 1999 murder of Paul Howell, is scheduled to be executed Thursday.

Willie B. Smith III, who avoided execution in February, has been put to death for the 1991 killing of a woman abducted during a robbery and then shot in a cemetery.

While officials with the Texas Department of Criminal Justice are blaming miscommunication for preventing reporters from witnessing the state’s first execution in nearly a year, legal and death penalty experts worry it’s another example of what they see as a lack of transparency and competency in how the death penalty is carried out in the U.S.

A Texas man convicted of fatally beating his 83-year-old great aunt more than two decades ago was executed Wednesday evening, despite requests from some of the victim’s family to spare his life.

A Fort Worth man convicted of fatally beating his 83-year-old great aunt before taking $30 from her purse is scheduled to die by lethal injection Wednesday.

Arkansas death row inmate Ledell Lee maintained his innocence in the 1993 murder of Debra Reese up until his April 2017 execution.

An Alabama inmate has won a reprieve from a scheduled lethal injection after the U.S. Supreme Court said the state could not proceed without his pastor in the death chamber.

Alabama would be the first state to carry out an execution this year if it wins final court approval to go ahead with plans to put to death a man convicted of murder

The Trump administration has carried out its 13th and final federal execution, five days before President-elect Joe Biden is sworn in

The U.S. government has executed a drug trafficker for a series of slayings in Virginia in 1992, despite his recent COVID-19 infection

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