Nearly 150 laws went into effect in Florida on July 1, including a wide variety of new crimes, harsher penalties, and changes ...

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

Edward J. Zakrzewski II pleaded guilty to strangling his wife to death and using a machete to kill his two children in ...

Tennessee death row prisoner Byron Black has filed a motion to deactivate his implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) at ...

Attorney General Todd Rokita has asked the Indiana Supreme Court to set an execution date for the man who killed a Dale, ...

Roy Lee Ward was sentenced to death in 2007 for the 2001 rape and murder of 15-year-old Stacy Payne. He has been on death row ...

The Missouri Supreme Court last week issued a warrant for the execution of Lance Shockley, who recently exhausted his state ...

Law enforcement has been pushing back Los Angeles protestors with 'less lethal' weapons. Now the National Guard is deployed and Marines are activated.

Next month, the state of Florida will officially be allowed to use new means of executing prisoners on death row — with some ...

Richard Jordan, who spent 48 years on Mississippi’s death row, received an execution by lethal injection at the state ...

The Supreme Court stayed the execution of a condemned Texas prisoner on Thursday, mere minutes before he was scheduled to die ...