If Christa Gail Pike's execution proceeds as planned next year, she will become the first woman put to death in Tennessee since the state began to formally document capital punishment more than a ...

Gov. Kevin Stitt has the final say. The execution is scheduled for Nov. 13 at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester.

(Texas Scorecard) – A Texas woman convicted of one of the most gruesome murders in recent memory is now appealing her death sentence, arguing that prosecutors improperly introduced humiliating and ...

Tennessee death row inmate Harold Wayne Nichols has declined to chose between the electric chair and lethal injection for his ...

Samuel Smithers, 72, was executed Tuesday evening at Florida State Prison in Raiford. File Photo by Paul Buck/EPA Oct. 15 (UPI) --Florida on Tuesday executed a 72-year-old death row inmate for the ...

Death row inmates in Japanese jails are kept in solitary confinement and forced to wait for years, and sometimes decades, ...