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 ...

Attorneys for Ralph Leroy Menzies, who's been on death row for 37 years, sought to convince a Utah state judge that the convicted murderer should be spared execution because he has dementia.

Jessie Hoffman Jr., 46, was declared dead shortly after 7 p.m. after he inhaled the lethal gas through a fitted full-faced respirator mask while strapped to a gurney.

Osgood said he thinks more death row inmates are thinking about dropping their appeals, because life without parole is scarier than death. “The scary thing is having to stay here.

Death row inmates want firing squad over lethal injection ahead of TN’s first execution in years Under the new protocol, executions will take place at 10 a.m. versus 7 p.m.