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

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.