Georgia is preparing for its first execution of 2025, raising renewed questions about the use of the death penalty in the ...

Georgia has set a Dec. 17 execution date for Stacey Ian Humphreys, convicted in the 2003 kidnapping and killing of two Cobb ...

Prison officials in Georgia have scheduled an execution later this month for a man convicted of fatally shooting two real ...

A North Carolina real estate agent could be killed as punishment for allegedly murdering three people in an apparent rampage, prosecutors claim. David Lever, 55, stands charged with three counts of ...

If Christa Gail Pike's execution proceeds as planned next year, she will become the first woman put to death in Tennessee since the state began to formally document capital punishment more than a ...

A death row inmate in Oklahoma was preparing for his scheduled execution Thursday when Gov. Kevin Sitt spared his life. The governor announced his decision to commute Tremane Wood's sentence from ...

A father who was jailed for murdering his baby daughter by shaking her has had his sentence increased. Thomas Holford was ...