SALT LAKE CITY — An attorney for two Utah death row inmates, Michael Anthony Archuleta and Troy Michael Kell, argued in front of the Utah Supreme Court Wednesday that they should always be able to ...

The execution of a former police officer convicted of murdering and raping a young girl nearly 40 years ago will remain on hold after the Florida Supreme Court on Monday denied the state’s request to ...

The execution of a former Florida police officer convicted of raping and murdering an 11-year-old girl was temporarily halted Thursday by the Florida Supreme Court.The court issued a stay in execution ...

James Duckett hopes a long-sought forensic exam might halt his scheduled lethal injection next week. James Duckett appears in a photo taken on death row at Union Correctional Institution. Gov. Ron ...

Christa Gail Pike was just 18 years old when she committed a crime that dominated headlines for years: She tortured and murdered her romantic rival in Tennessee and later showed off a piece of the ...

STARKE, Fla. (WWSB) - Michael King, 54, was executed by lethal injection Tuesday, becoming the 32nd person put to death under Gov. Ron DeSantis. King was convicted of killing Denise Amber Lee, a ...

A North Texas man faces execution on Wednesday for fatally stabbing his girlfriend and her 8-year-old son nearly 13 years ago. Cedric Ricks was sentenced to death for the May 2013 killings of ...

Alabama Republican Gov. Kay Ivey has commuted the death sentence of Sonny Burton, who was set to be executed this week for a murder in which he didn't pull the trigger. The governor of Alabama has ...

HOUSTON (AP) — A North Texas man faced execution on Wednesday for fatally stabbing his girlfriend and her 8-year-old son nearly 13 years ago. Cedric Ricks was sentenced to death for the May 2013 ...

A court granted James Duckett’s request to test for DNA evidence after Gov. Ron DeSantis ordered his execution. James Aren Duckett is seen in court during his 1988 trial. He was sentenced to die for ...

The governor of Alabama has granted clemency to a man on death row for three decades, a rare move that spares the accomplice in a 1991 murder from execution on Thursday. Gov. Kay Ivey, in announcing ...

“All appear to have been relatively young men flung into the pit without care,” the University of Cambridge said of the human remains Cambridge Archaeological University of Cambridge archaeologists ...