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Supreme Court weighs key testimony that underpins death row inmate's conviction
The state’s Republican attorney general agrees that Richard Glossip’s conviction should be thrown out based on problematic testimony at trial.
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Texas execution in October renews calls for rarely granted clemency
A Texas man set to die this month is at the center of another push for clemency in the U.S., this time backed by several GOP lawmakers and bestselling author John Grisham, who say a father’s 2002 conviction for killing his infant daughter deserves a second look.
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Man to be executed Tuesday for killing twin girls, their mom in 1989
A Texas man linked to five killings and convicted of fatally stabbing twin 16-year-old girls more than three decades ago is facing execution on Tuesday evening.
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Alabama puts man convicted of killing 3 to death in the country's second nitrogen gas execution
A man convicted of killing three people in workplace shootings has been executed with nitrogen gas in Alabama.
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Texas man set to be executed for stomping his infant son to death
A Texas man with a history of mental illness who has repeatedly sought to waive his right to appeal his death sentence is facing execution for killing his 3-month-old son.
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There are 5 executions set over a week's span in the US — that's the most in decades
The executions in Alabama, Missouri, Oklahoma, South Carolina and Texas will mark the first time in more than 20 years that five were held in seven days.
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South Carolina restarts executions after 13 years
South Carolina has put inmate Freddie Owens to death in the state’s first execution in more than a decade.
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Texas lawmakers urge Gov. Abbott to halt man's execution in ‘shaken baby' case
A bipartisan group of Texas lawmakers petitioned Republican Gov. Greg Abbott and the state’s Board of Pardons and Paroles on Tuesday to stop the scheduled execution next month of a man convicted of killing his 2-year-old daughter in 2002, arguing the case was built on faulty scientific evidence.
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Texas court won't stop man's execution in shaken baby case
Texas’s highest criminal court on Wednesday declined to stop the execution next month of Robert Roberson, who was sentenced to death in 2003 for killing his 2-year-old daughter
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Supreme Court grants Texas man a stay just before his scheduled execution
The U.S. Supreme Court granted a stay of execution for a Texas man shortly before he was to receive a lethal injection in a killing decades ago.
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Texas man facing execution for 1998 killing of elderly woman for her money
A Texas man is set to be executed for the killing of an elderly woman decades ago in what prosecutors said was an attempt to steal money the woman had hidden in her Brownsville home.
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Missouri death row inmate nears execution after killing his cousin and her husband
The fate of a Missouri man convicted of killing his cousin and her husband nearly two decades ago appears to rest with the U.S. Supreme Court, with just hours to go before the scheduled execution.
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Alabama murderer gives up appeals and asks to be executed so that victims' families have ‘justice'
A convicted killer on death row in Alabama told NBC News he no longer wants to delay justice for the families of the five people he murdered eight years ago and is ready to pay the ultimate price for his crimes.
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Alabama man shook violently on gurney during first-ever nitrogen gas execution
Kenneth Eugene Smith appeared to shake and convulse before being pronounced dead Thursday at an Alabama prison after breathing the gas through a face mask to cause oxygen deprivation.
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Alabama executes a man with nitrogen gas, the first time the new method has been used
Alabama executed a convicted murderer with nitrogen gas Thursday, putting him to death with a first-of-its-kind method that once again put the U.S. at the forefront of the debate over capital punishment. The state said the method would be humane, but critics called it cruel and experimental.
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Alabama calls nitrogen execution method ‘painless' and ‘humane,' but critics raise doubts
Alabama intends to put a man to death with nitrogen gas this week unless stopped by the courts. It would be the first execution attempt with the method in the U.S.
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Alabama plans to carry out the first nitrogen gas execution. How will it work and what are the risks?
Alabama is preparing to attempt the nation’s first execution using nitrogen gas.
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‘Too late to pull them back': Fuller picture of Trump's federal executions revealed
Fresh details have emerged about the 13 federal executions that were carried out in the final six months of Donald Trump’s presidency.
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Alabama wants to try executing prisoner by making them breathe pure nitrogen
Alabama is seeking to become the first state to execute a prisoner by making him breathe pure nitrogen.
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Alabama executes man for the beating death of a woman, resuming lethal injections after review
Alabama executed a man on Friday for the 2001 beating death of a woman as the state resumed lethal injections following a pause to review procedures.