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.