A Florida man is scheduled for execution next month after his conviction in the killing of his cousin's girlfriend and her 4-year-old daughter under a death warrant signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis ...

The Department of Justice on Friday directed the Bureau of Prisons to expand death penalty protocols to include pentobarbital injections and firing squads as part of broader actions to strengthen the ...

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. Tennessee plans to put Tony Carruthers to ...

An upcoming execution in Texas has gained the attention of prominent rappers like Travis Scott and T.I. for the questions it raises about the place rap lyrics have in the courtroom and how justice is ...

Iran's judiciary denied reports that eight women arrested in protests face execution risk Rights groups say at least one woman sentenced to death, another faces capital charges Trump urged Iran to ...

Texas has executed a death row inmate who fatally stabbed his girlfriend and her 8-year-old son in a fit of rage before he turned the knife on her 12-year-old son, who miraculously survived the attack ...

The Justice Department announced Friday it is continuing to clear the way for expediting federal death-penalty cases, including by expanding the manners of execution to include death by firing squad.

Time is running out in the fight to stop the execution of a convicted killer. James Broadnax, 37, is scheduled to die by lethal injection on April 30 for a 2008 double murder outside a music studio in ...

President Trump on Wednesday said Iran will not executive eight Iranian women accused being involved in protests against the regime, as previously planned. “Very good news! I have just been informed ...

The Justice Department announced on Friday that it would reimplement lethal injection and firing squads as part of the Trump administration's efforts to "strengthen" the federal death penalty. "Among ...

President Donald Trump’s administration plans to add firing squads, electrocution and gas asphyxiation as alternative methods of executing people convicted of the gravest federal crimes, it announced ...

Florida plans to execute Chadwick Willacy, who was convicted of murdering his neighbor in 1990. Willacy's attorneys have appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, citing concerns over Florida's lethal ...