A Georgia judge on Monday ordered a temporary pause to a December execution that was already put on hold, saying questions about the state’s clemency process must be addressed before Stacey Humphreys’ ...

An Alabama inmate was executed by lethal injection on Thursday evening, the state's attorney general confirmed, marking the state's third execution this year. Keith Edmund Gavin, 64, was convicted on ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — In a story Sept. 29 about an attempt by Arkansas inmates to cancel their upcoming executions, The Associated Press reported erroneously the names of the three states in which ...

If a corrections bill in the Florida Legislature passes, the state could see death row prisoners executed by firing squad or nitrogen. What to know.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCSC/AP) - An inmate was executed by a firing squad for the murders he committed in 2004. Three prison employees, all with live ammunition, have volunteered to carry out the execution ...