Studies of the death penalty have long shown racial inequality in its application, but a new report has found the disparity extends inside the death chamber itself. In an analysis of the more than ...

The 57-year-old man sentenced to death in the murder of a Florida State University student in 1994 is scheduled to be executed at 6 p.m. – more than 30 years after the crime. Gov. Ron DeSantis signed ...

Alan E. Miller, convicted in three 1999 murders, appeared to shake and gasp after the gas began flowing, media witnesses said. The only other prisoner to be executed by nitrogen had a similar response ...

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The state plans to carry out the first U.S. execution via nitrogen hypoxia with Kenneth Smith, who survived an earlier attempt to execute him by lethal injection. By Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs It was ...

The executions are scheduled as early as May. The four people the court set execution dates for were scheduled to die before capital punishment was paused in Tennessee in 2022. The Tennessee Supreme ...

Eight times, a medical team in an Idaho prison tried to establish an intravenous line to deliver a lethal injection to condemned inmate Thomas Creech. But their attempts failed, giving Creech an ...

This story is part of a series examining the death penalty in Texas. You can read more about how the system works here and how it is waiting for execution on Texas' death row. HUNTSVILLE, Texas — A ...