Tennessee is scheduled to execute death row inmate Edmund Zagorski using the electric chair Nov. 1, the first time the chair has been used here in 11 years. Gov. Bill Haslam delayed the execution to ...

The proposed law heads to Gov. Brad Little’s desk for his consideration, likely ending an Idaho Supreme Court appeal if he ...

Billy Kearse, on Florida's death row for the 1991 murder of Fort Pierce Police Officer Danny Parrish, was executed by lethal ...

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STARKE, Fla. (AP) — A man convicted of killing a traveling salesman he and his brother had met at a bar has become the first person executed in Florida this year. Ronald Palmer Heath, 64, was ...

Correction: An earlier version of this article misspelled the name of the director of the Catholic Mobilizing Network’s Death Penalty Abolition Program. It is Emmjolee Mendoza Waters. The correct ...

Members of the NAACP, Color of Change and Amnesty International are rallying together one last time to gain support for Georgia inmate Troy Davis, who is soon expected to face his fourth execution ...

A judge ruled Friday that Tennessee prison officials must grant expanded access to media members to view state-run executions, after a coalition of news organizations including The Associated Press ...

Anti-capital punishment advocates say the death penalty is costlier to taxpayers than life in prison because many defendants appeal their sentences, and the appeals process can force victims’ families ...