Ohio lawmakers are trying to end the state’s years-long moratorium on executions by seeking federal help with obtaining ...

If a corrections bill in the Florida Legislature passes, the state could see death row prisoners executed by firing squad or ...

Lawyers for convicted murderer Michael Tanzi say that his weight and health conditions could cause a lethal injection ...

Lawyers for a Florida man on death row are seeking to halt his execution set for next week, arguing that his obesity could lead to a botched lethal injection.

Each death penalty case is autho­rized by the DOJ headquarters in Washington, D.C., in con­sul­ta­tion with local U.S.

A Florida death row inmate who was convicted of kidnapping and killing a woman in 2000 is asking the court to show him ...

A death row inmate's lawyers filed documents requesting that their client be exempt from lethal injection due to his morbid obesity.

A bill could make firing squads and lethal gas options in Florida executions as a shortage of pentobarbital, used for lethal ...

People sentenced to death in Florida could be executed by firing squads, nitrogen gas or other methods under a bill that ...

Tennessee Death Row inmate Gary Sutton says he didn't commit the crime he's convicted of and has a group of supporters fighting for his exoneration.

Oklahoma executed a man Thursday morning 20 years after he murdered a woman during a home invasion and robbery.