James Hitchcock, sentenced to death four times for a 1976 murder, is set for execution in Florida on April 30.

Tennessee death row inmate, Christa Pike, is set to be the first woman executed in the state in over 200 years. She filed a ...

Ex-officer James Duckett had been set to be executed on Tuesday for the rape and murder of an 11-year-old girl while he was ...

The murder that Christa Pike was convicted of demonstrated a brutality and callousness not often seen in women, let alone one so young.

Arizona's Senate passed a measure that would allow voters to decide on firing squad executions, a method proponents call ...

Death penalty cases cost taxpayers significantly more than cases where inmates serve life sentences. Capital cases are more expensive due to lengthy trials, extensive appeals, and specialized housing ...

After a 16 year pause on death row executions, Kentucky lawmakers passed a bill that would let them resume in the ...

Billy Leon Kearse spent 29 years on death row for killing Fort Pierce police Sgt. Danny Parrish in 1991 — and the case likely cost taxpayers over $1 million or potentially much more.