Tennessee officials halted the planned execution of death row inmate Tony Carruthers on Thursday after prison staff spent nearly an hour struggling to find a vein for the lethal injection, according ...

Dan Raby, the senior digital producer for CBS News Atlanta, has been covering everything happening around Georgia for more than a decade. The execution of a Georgia man scheduled for Wednesday has ...

The development of Idaho’s execution procedures by the director of state prisons will be shielded from the public and not subject to court review under a bill the Legislature sent to the governor’s ...

Before execution, many death row inmates are offered a final meal. The requests range from ordinary to deeply unusual, and in some cases, the meal is declined entirely. This list looks at ten of the ...

Regardless of anyone’s specific opinion on the moral and ethical grounds of capital punishment as a deterrent or an act of state barbarism, the fact of the matter is this: the actual, mechanical ...

SALT LAKE CITY — Nearly 16 years after Ronnie Lee Gardner was executed by firing squad in Utah, his brother still has nightmares about it. "I've had nightmares over this. I've had nightmares of ...

Richard Madeley ‘forced to watch horrifying execution video’ during El Salvador prison visit - ...

Florida’s death row inmates spend 23 hours a day in their 6-by-9 foot cells, passing time by watching TV on prison-issued devices, reading books or magazines, studying their case files or writing ...