Stanko will become the sixth death row inmate the state has put to death since September. According to court documents, Stanko began a murder spree on April 8, 2005, when he strangled Ling to ...

A convicted murderer and rapist in Louisiana was executed by nitrogen gas Tuesday night, marking the state’s first death row killing in 15 years — and the first time the lethal method was used ...

Salt Lake City — Attorneys for a Utah man who's been on death row for 37 years sought to convince a state judge Wednesday that the convicted murderer should be spared execution because he has ...

A man on Alabama’s death row wants his execution to go forward this week, saying he believes in an “eye for an eye.” “The reason I dropped my appeals is I am guilty of murder,” James ...

The Mississippi Supreme Court ruled on May 1 that a man on death row has exhausted all his legal remedies and set an execution date, yet the U.S. Supreme Court has not responded to a petition to ...