Frank Athen Walls, 58, was pronounced dead at 6:11 p.m. after being injected with a three-drug cocktail while strapped to a gurney inside the death chamber at Florida State Prison in Raiford.

Death row executions nearly doubled this year compared to last in a rise driven largely by one state — Florida On Thursday night, Florida executed its 19th person on death row this year, more than ...

Forty-four death row inmates across the U.S. have been executed this year, reaching a level not seen in more than a decade.

Stacey Humphreys, 52, will be put to death by lethal injection next Wednesday, but he has one final pig out planned.

The case has been dropped against a man who spent a quarter-century on death row for the robbery and murder of a New Jersey ...

The Supreme Court will hear the appeal of a Mississippi death row inmate whose case involved a prosecutor with a history of ...

The use of capital punishment has steadily declined in the United States since its peak in 1996, when 315 death sentences ...

Wednesday’s scheduled execution of Stacey Ian Humphreys is on hold for now after the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles abruptly canceled a clemency hearing set for Tuesday.

For his final feast, murderer Stacey Humphreys — who is approximately 6-foot-3 and weighs 305 lbs. — has asked for full ...

The Associated Press reported Wednesday that a judge declined to stop the execution of Stacey Humphreys, convicted of killing ...

Wednesday's scheduled execution of a Cobb death row inmate has been suspended as the State Board of Pardons and Paroles ...