Texas and Alabama have executed death row inmates within minutes of each other, one for killing a 13-month-old baby during an "exorcism" and the other for shooting a mother of two in the head during a ...

The Supreme Court has termed as ''highly disappointing'' and ''alarming'' the pendency of over 8.82 lakh execution petitions before different courts across the country. Execution petitions are the ...

TALLAHASSEE — In an unusual move, an inmate scheduled to be executed this month in the 1998 sexual assault and murder of an East Milton woman has decided not to fight in court. During an Oct. 1 ...

A Mississippi man convicted of kidnapping, raping and killing a 20-year-old community college student in 1993 was executed Wednesday. Charles Crawford, 59, was pronounced dead at 6:15 p.m. following a ...

Texas, which historically drives the number of executions nationwide, is approaching a grim milestone of 600 people put to death by lethal injection since the early 1980s. But for the past 10 years, a ...

STARKE, Fla. — A man convicted of the 1996 killings of two women whose bodies were left in a rural pond was put to death Tuesday evening in a record 14th execution in Florida this year. Samuel Lee ...

As of 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 14, the U.S. Supreme Court has yet to issue a ruling on Mississippi death row inmate Charles Ray Crawford's petition to halt his scheduled execution. Crawford's execution ...

COLUMBIA — The U.S. Supreme Court declined Oct. 14 to review the death sentence of Stephen Bryant, which could lead to a November execution for the South Carolina inmate who admitted to killing three ...

A guillotine donated by French lawyer Robert Badinter, who fought for the abolition of the death penalty, is on display at Marseille’s Museum of the Civilizations of Europe and the Mediterranean ...

PARCHMAN, Miss. (WTVA) — The execution of Charles Ray Crawford is set for Wednesday evening. His execution is set for 6:00 at the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman. Gov. Tate Reeves announced ...

JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) – Governor Tate Reeves (R-Miss.) announced the execution of a Mississippi death row inmate will proceed this month. Officials said the lawyers for Charles Ray Crawford filed an ...