Utah inmate Ralph Menzies died of natural causes after his execution was blocked after he developed dementia during his ...

On this day in history, the US carried out its first execution by lethal injection — a method thought up by one doctor.

A Utah man who was spared execution this fall after developing dementia during his 37 years on death row has died of apparent natural causes. Ralph Leroy Menzies was set to die by firing squad ...

Until this year, death penalty executions had been dwindling across the nation. The sudden spike now is unusual, experts say. Forty-five people on death row have been executed so far this year, and ...

John Louis Evans III, aged 33, was put to death in Alabama after killing a pawnbroker, and was eventually strapped into an ...

John Louis Evans III was executed in Alabama in 1983 after being convicted of killing pawnbroker Edward Nassar during a 1977 robbery spree ...

A Utah man who was spared execution this fall after developing dementia during his 37 years on death row has died of apparent natural causes.

John Louis Evans III was put to death in Alabama in 1983 after being convicted of killing pawnbroker Edward Nassar ...

Nationally, the number of people put to death remains far below the peak in the nineties. The long decline since then, however, appears to now be reversing. One might expect the sudden killing spree ...

John Louis Evans III was put to death in Alabama in 1983 after being convicted of killing pawnbroker Edward Nassar during a 1977 robbery spree ...