Florida executed its oldest inmate on Thursday, continuing a sharp increase in executions under Gov. Ron DeSantis.

A 74-year-old man, who became the oldest individual to be executed in Florida since records were first kept in 1924, offered ...

Alabama is seeking to execute a man with lethal injection hours after his nitrogen execution was prevented from going forward.

Dusty Ray Spencer, 74, would become the oldest person put to death in Florida since the reinstatement of the death penalty in ...

Gov. Mike DeWine supported Ohio's death penalty as a legislator and attorney general. Now he wants the practice to end.

Indiana is preparing for its fourth state execution since resuming capital punishment, with the new Westville Correctional ...

In a lawsuit, convicted killer Christa Pike is arguing Tennessee's lethal injection procedure would be cruel and unusual punishment.

Three men convicted of murder remain on Ohio's death row as state leaders debate the future of capital punishment.

On the evening of February 24, the state of Florida continued its aggressive use of the death penalty, executing 65-year-old Melvin Trotter at Florida State Prison near Starke. Trotter, who had spent ...

The Justice Department on Friday said it will seek to impose the death penalty in more federal cases and will expand the way in which convicted inmates can be killed—including bringing back the firing ...