An Oklahoma man has been executed for fatally shooting a woman during a home invasion and robbery 20 years ago.

Last year, a new execution method was used in the U.S. for the first time since 1982. Here’s a look at how people have been ...

An autopsy report for a South Carolina man executed with the state’s lethal injection protocol raises more questions about whether the process is an unusually cruel and painful method of execution.

Charles Reynolds ... and adopted lethal injection as its means of execution in 1977, the state has put 592 people to death, according to online records. Charlie Brooks was that first in that ...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A Texas appeals court on Tuesday halted the execution of a man who has spent more than 30 years on death row and had been set to die by lethal injection this week over the ...

AP Photo Charles Manson and his “family” of followers were the perpetrators of one of the most infamous murder sprees in U.S. history. There are nine known victims of the Manson family's 1969 ...

Lethal injection has been used in nearly 90% of all executions in the U.S. since 1977, according to a database from the Death Penalty Information Center, because it has been widely considered the ...

Brad Sigmon's lawyers said he chose the firing squad because the electric chair would 'cook him alive,' and he feared that a lethal injection Author of the article: You can save this article by ...