The scheduled execution of an Alabama Death Row inmate will not go forward next week as the state waits for the completion of a court-ordered psychiatric evaluation. A judge last month stayed the Aug.

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 ...

Editor’s note: An Oklahoma judge granted a temporary stay of execution Monday to John Hanson. Find the latest on his case here. Over the next four days, four inmates in four states are scheduled to be ...

Starke, Fla. — A man convicted of the 1994 machete killings of his wife and their two children became the ninth person put to death in Florida this year, his death Thursday marking a state record for ...

It's chilly and silent inside a witness room adjacent to the execution chamber at Florida State Prison in Raiford. I'm about to witness Michael Anthony Tanzi exhale for the final time as the ...

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Nimisha Priya, a nurse from Kerala, has found herself at the centre of international headlines after being sentenced to death in Yemen. Yemeni authorities, on Tuesday, postponed the execution of ...