While four inmates being scheduled to die in the same week is not an anomaly in the U.S., their executions present an overall ...

However, he allowed criminals to be mutilated for their crimes. During the middle ages, capital punishment was accompanied by torture. Most barons had a drowning pit as well as gallows and they ...

On Thursday, a federal judge denied Stanko’s attorneys’ appeal to delay his execution over concerns of the effectiveness of lethal injection used on previous inmates. Stanko is set to become the sixth ...

Seymour, said he supports imposing the death penalty for convicted child molesters and may propose legislation next session ...

Indiana has exhausted its supply of lethal injection drugs after carrying out two executions in the past six months — and Gov ...

An Oklahoma man who ate three “last meals” and was scheduled for execution nine times won’t face the death penalty again.