Death row inmates in five states have been put to death in the span of one week, an unusually high number of executions that ...

More than half of American states have abolished the death penalty or hit pause on executions. Less than half —47%—of ...

The ruling by Tokyo's Shizuoka District Court brought an end to Iwao Hamakada's status as the world's longest serving death ...

Despicable baby killer Travis Mullis gave his haunting final words following a 16-year spell on death row, before being being ...

Travis Mullis, 38, received a lethal injection at the state penitentiary in Huntsville on Tuesday and was pronounced dead at ...

Miller was convicted of murdering Terry Jarvis, Lee Holdbrooks and Christopher Yancy in two workplace shootings on Aug. 5, ...

Oklahoma is set to execute Emmanuel Littlejohn in the murder of Kenneth Meers in a 1992 robbery that turned fatal. Littlejohn ...

Kenneth Meers of Oklahoma City "simply did not have a mean bone in his body." The man convicted of killing him is set to be ...

Travis Mullis, 38, was executed Tuesday at the Huntsville Unit in Huntsville, Texas, for the killing of his 3-month-old son more than 16 years ago. Mullis was pronounced dead at 7:01 p.m. with just ...

Three men were killed in back-to-back attacks at the workplaces of Alan Eugene Miller, who court records say was upset that ...