NPR's Barbara Bradley reports on efforts to block Tuesday's planned execution of Juan Raul Garza, a drug trafficker who was convicted of murdering one man and ordering the deaths of two others. He is ...

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (AP) _ With an apology for ``the pain and grief that I have caused,'' murderer and drug kingpin Juan Raul Garza was executed Tuesday, eight days after Timothy McVeigh became the ...

CHICAGO, June 3 -- With slightly more than two weeks left before the scheduled execution of convicted murderer and drug kingpin Juan Raul Garza, death penalty opponents today accused the Bush ...

MEXICO CITY -- Mexico took a hands-off attitude toward Tuesday's execution of Juan Raul Garza, an American citizen of Mexican ancestry who prosecutors say ordered four murders in Mexico. Garza was ...

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (AP) _ Convicted murderer and drug kingpin Juan Raul Garza was executed this morning, eight days after Timothy McVeigh became the first federal inmate put to death since 1963. Garza ...

Just five months ago, when Juan Raul Garza was first scheduled to die, his planned execution was at the center of the national debate over the death penalty. His attorneys, joined by critics of ...

An appeals court today denied a federal death row inmate's motion to delay his execution or to void his sentence. Juan Raul Garza, 44, is set to be executed on June 19. The Texas man was convicted of ...

NPR's religion correspondent Duncan Moon examines the concept of divine justice as it applies to the death penalty. With the execution of Timothy McVeigh and Juan Raul Garza this month, congregations ...

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. -- With an apology for "the pain and grief that I have caused," murderer and drug kingpin Juan Raul Garza was executed Tuesday, eight days after Timothy McVeigh became the first ...