Ruth Ellis, the last woman executed in Britain, will be conditionally pardoned, according to Deputy Prime Minister David ...

Texas was scheduled to hold a hearing today to determine whether Andre Thomas is competent to be executed. But that hearing had to be called off, because the expert retained by the state to examine ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The annual number of death row inmates executed in the U.S. is set to ...

Houston — A Texas man who at one time escaped from custody and was on the run for three days after being sentenced to death for fatally shooting his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend nearly 27 years ...

The Tennessee Supreme Court has announced the execution dates for four inmates, including the only woman on the state's death row. Christa Pike was found guilty in 1995 of the brutal torture and ...

Two death row inmates were executed on Thursday, the first in a series of five scheduled across the United States over a period of eight days. Raymond Johnson was executed in Oklahoma on Thursday ...

The only woman on Tennessee's death row has been scheduled for execution more than 30 years after she brutally killed a teenage romantic rival and showed off a piece of the victim's skull to ...

Two inmates have been executed an hour apart during what's expected to be the single busiest month for the death penalty in the U.S. in nearly 15 years. Florida executed Samuel Lee Smithers on Tuesday ...

Florida plans to execute Chadwick Willacy, who was convicted of murdering his neighbor in 1990. Willacy's attorneys have appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, citing concerns over Florida's lethal ...