The murder that Christa Pike was convicted of demonstrated a brutality and callousness not often seen in women, let alone one ...

Arizona's Senate passed a measure that would allow voters to decide on firing squad executions, a method proponents call ...

In his complaint, Michael Wade Nance said his veins were so severely compromised that they were likely to blow and cause him ...

Former Central Florida police officer James A. Duckett is scheduled to be executed on March 31 for the 1987 rape and murder ...

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday denied a last-minute petition from Michael King, 54, who is scheduled to be executed Tuesday by lethal injection.

The victim's own 911 call, unanswered in time to save her, again looms over Florida's latest scheduled execution.

A Dallas County death row inmate’s attorneys are seeking to halt his scheduled execution after his cousin and co-defendant submitted a sworn confession claiming he — not the condemned man — was the ...

Florida executed Michael King by lethal injection March 17 at Florida State Prison near Starke, for the 2008 Sarasota County kidnapping and murder of Denise Amber Lee. King was pronounced dead at 6:13 ...

Witness description of the silence in the room as Michael King took his last breath.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. TALLAHASSEE — Accusing the state of “reckless maladministration” of the lethal-injection process, an attorney for condemned killer ...

Cedric Ricks was executed by lethal injection on Wednesday for the murder of 30-year-old Roxann Sanchez and her 8-year-old ...

An execution in the state of Alabama is raising more questions about a controversial drug used in lethal injections. Late last night, Alabama executed Ronald Bert Smith, a convicted murderer. In that ...