Prison officials served death row inmate Oscar Franklin Smith his last meal Wednesday night, about 16 hours before he's scheduled to die by lethal injection.

More than three decades after killing his wife and two young children, former Florida airman Edward J. Zakrzewski II is ...

A man who killed his wife and two children in 1994 after his wife sought a divorce has been scheduled for execution in Florida. Republican Gov.

Twenty-five men have died by court-ordered execution so far this year in the U.S. Six other people are scheduled to be put to death in five states during the remainder ...

Richard Jordan, the longest-serving and oldest person on Mississippi's death row, was executed on June 25 for the 1976 murder ...

This is the third time Todd Kelvin Wessinger's death sentence was vacated and remanded back to state court for a new trial ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Latavious Johnson, a 43-year-old death row inmate, died on Friday, June 6, according to the Arkansas Department of Corrections. Johnson was previously serving a life sentence ...

Robertson, 51, has been on death row since 1999 after killing both his parents in their Rock Hill home. He beat his father with the claw end of a hammer and a baseball bat and stabbed his mother.

Robertson, 51, has been on death row since 1999 after killing both his parents in their Rock Hill home. He beat his father with the claw end of a hammer and a baseball bat and stabbed his mother.

Authorities said on Friday a son’s abuse and neglect led to his mother’s death last June. McDowell County Sheriff’s Office Captain Shanon Smith charged 37-year-old Charles William Carroll of Tatertown ...