Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves announced the execution of Charles Ray Crawford will proceed as scheduled. Crawford was convicted and sentenced to death in 1994 for the 1993 kidnapping, rape, and murder ...

A Texas judge has rescheduled the execution of a death row inmate who won a rare stay of execution last year as prison officials were poised to administer his lethal injection. Judge Austin Reeve ...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KY3) -A man is scheduled to die by lethal injection on Tuesday for the death of Missouri State Highway Patrol Sergeant Carl Dewayne Graham Jr. in Carter County. On Monday, ...

Two inmates have been executed an hour apart during what's expected to be the single busiest month for the death penalty in the U.S. in nearly 15 years. Florida executed Samuel Lee Smithers on Tuesday ...

Charles Crawford is scheduled to be executed for the 1993 kidnapping, rape, and murder of Kristy Ray. Crawford's last meal request was a double cheeseburger, french fries, peach cobbler, and chocolate ...

A Missouri man who was convicted of fatally shooting a state trooper 20 years ago was executed Tuesday. Lance Shockley, 48, died by lethal injection shortly after 6 p.m. at the state prison in Bonne ...

The Mississippi Supreme Court denied a last-minute emergency petition to stay the execution of death row inmate Charles Ray Crawford. Crawford's attorneys argued his original trial lawyers improperly ...

Oct. 10 (UPI) --Indiana executed Roy Lee Ward, who was sentenced to death after being convicted of rape and murder Friday morning, shortly after midnight CDT. Ward, 53, was convicted of the 2001 rape ...

Nollywood actor Williams Uchemba has called on the Nigerian government to enforce public executions for convicted kidnappers, saying that visible and decisive punishment is the only way to deter the ...