A federal judge on Friday ordered Alabama to preserve all records and medical supplies associated with an aborted lethal injection after the state acknowledged multiple attempts to access the inmate’s veins before calling off the execution

His arm may have been cut to find a vein.

An independent investigation by a law firm raised questions about man’s guilt.

Two men were implicated in 11 torture-slayings in California in the mid-1980s.

Alabama Supreme Court sets execution date for a mentally disturbed truck driver.

A federal judge rejected their challenge to the state’s lethal injection method.

Prisoner tried to delay his execution in the 1984 killing of an 8-year-old girl

Clarence Davis was executed for the killing of a college student 44 years ago.

He was convicted of killing a college student in 1978.

The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles will review Melissa Lucio's death sentence and make a recommendation to Gov. Greg Abbott. Her execution is set for April 27.

Melissa Lucio was convicted of murdering her 2-year-old daughter in 2008. Her case has gained national attention as her family and legal team fought for clemency.

Melissa Lucio was convicted of capital murder in 2008 in the death of her 2-year-old daughter. Advocates say the case was mismanaged and that crucial parts of evidence were never presented.

Melissa Lucio was found guilty of capital murder in the death of her two year old daughter in 2007. She has been in death row for the past 15 years.

Offiicials set a April 29 execution date for Richard Bernard Moore.

A Texas woman has denied she fatally beat her 2-year-old daughter.

Oklahoma has executed a man for the brutal slayings of two hotel workers during a robbery in 2001

Four Oklahoma death row inmates scheduled for execution in the next three months

John Ramirez is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to allow his Baptist pastor inside a Texas death chamber to pray aloud and lay a hand on his body as he's executed.

Prison employees will do once-a-week rehearsals to prepare.

 An appellate court has ordered a federal judge to consider an Alabama’s inmate’s request to block his execution next week

Texas won't let spiritual advisers touch people as they are being put to death.

A defense attorney for a former nurse accused of killing four patients at an East Texas hospital in 2017 has told jurors that his client was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time

Tennessee death row inmate Stephen Hugueley has died three days after the state filed a motion to set his execution date

Requested permission to join another inmate’s request to block electrocution.

There are 37 men on South Carolina’s death row.

A lack of drugs used in lethal injections has stalled three executions in South Carolina over the past six months

South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster has signed into law a bill that forces death row inmates to choose between the electric chair or a newly formed firing squad in hopes the state can restart executions after an involuntary 10-year pause

Two Black, intellectually disabled half brothers who spent decades behind bars.

The South Carolina House has voted to add the firing squad to the state's execution methods amid a lack of lethal-injection drugs

Prosecutors told the Arizona Supreme Court that they intend on soon seeking execution warrants for two death-row inmates in what would be the state’s first executions since 2014

Inmates on federal death row tell The Associated Press that a leading topic of conversation through air ducts they use to communicate is whether President Joe Biden will keep a campaign pledge to halt federal executions

Former judges and prosecutors are joining those seeking a new trial for a death row inmate in Alabama

Legislators in Wyoming have introduced a bill to end he state's use of capital punishment.

A recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling means they could escape execution.

Executioners offered sanitized, incomplete versions to judges.

An appellate court has stayed the execution of an Alabama inmate

Dozens of civil rights and advocacy organizations are calling on the Biden administration to immediately halt federal executions after an unprecedented run of capital punishment under President Donald Trump

Joe Biden is the first sitting president to openly oppose the death penalty.

An inmate scheduled to be executed just days before President-elect Joe Biden takes office has tested positive for coronavirus

First is a former Texas gang member for the 1999 slaying of a young couple.

A spokesman for Joe Biden says the president-elect is against the death penalty and will work to end its use

The U.S. Department of Justice has scheduled the first federal execution of a woman in nearly seven decades.

A lower court’s ruling halted the first federal execution in nearly two decades.

Federal appeals court rules that the execution can proceed as scheduled Monday.

They argue Tennessee's use of capital punishment is rooted in a racist past.