COBB COUNTY, Ga. — A metro Atlanta man’s scheduled execution on Wednesday has been suspended by the State Board of Pardons and Paroles. Stacey Ian Humphreys was scheduled to be put to death by lethal ...

(INDIANA CAPITAL CHRONICLE) — Attorneys for death row inmate Roy Lee Ward and the Indiana Attorney General’s Office are sparring before the state’s highest court over whether Ward’s tentative ...

This article contains mentions of violence and sexual abuse. Reader discretion is advised. After many attempts to avoid his ...

Mississippi allows execution by firing squad, but has never used this method. Richard Jordan, Mississippi's longest-serving death row inmate, is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection.

Update (5:50 p.m.): Edmund Zagorski's attorney, Kelley Henry, tells the Scene that Tennessee Department of Correction officials have said it's too late for Zagorski to choose the electric chair, and ...

ATMORE, AL -- 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, was ...

A federal judge Wednesday told lawyers for a South Carolina inmate scheduled to die in two days that he doesn’t plan to stop the execution because they didn’t have evidence there were problems with ...

With just weeks until Indiana’s third scheduled execution in less than a year, debate continues around the state’s supply of pentobarbital — and whether the execution drug can be safely used to kill ...

Little is known about how Indiana acquired pentobarbital, a drug that state officials have used twice for executions in the last year. The drug is expected to be used again for death row inmate Roy ...