Execution

While officials with the Texas Department of Criminal Justice are blaming miscommunication for preventing reporters from witnessing the state’s first execution in nearly a year, legal and death penalty experts worry it’s another example of what they see as a lack of transparency and competency in how the death penalty is carried out in the U.S.

A Texas man convicted of fatally beating his 83-year-old great aunt more than two decades ago was executed Wednesday evening, despite requests from some of the victim’s family to spare his life.

A Fort Worth man convicted of fatally beating his 83-year-old great aunt before taking $30 from her purse is scheduled to die by lethal injection Wednesday.

Arkansas death row inmate Ledell Lee maintained his innocence in the 1993 murder of Debra Reese up until his April 2017 execution.

An Alabama inmate has won a reprieve from a scheduled lethal injection after the U.S. Supreme Court said the state could not proceed without his pastor in the death chamber.

Alabama would be the first state to carry out an execution this year if it wins final court approval to go ahead with plans to put to death a man convicted of murder

The Trump administration has carried out its 13th and final federal execution, five days before President-elect Joe Biden is sworn in

The U.S. government has executed a drug trafficker for a series of slayings in Virginia in 1992, despite his recent COVID-19 infection

A new report by a think tank examining executions in the United States says death penalty cases show a long history of racial disparity, from who is executed to where and for what crimes.

A man who killed a Kansas girl more than two decades ago has been executed in Indiana, the fifth federal inmate put to death this year and second this week

The U.S. government has set an execution date for the only Native American on federal death row.

The U.S. government has put to death an Iowa chemistry student-turned-meth kingpin convicted of killing two children and three adults

The United States has carried out its second federal execution in three days, killing by lethal injection a Kansas man whose lawyers contended he had dementia

A U.S. judge has halted the execution of a federal death row inmate whose lawyers argue suffers from dementia

The federal government has carried out its first execution in almost two decades

A U.S. district judge has ordered a new delay in federal executions, hours before the first lethal injection was scheduled to be carried out at a federal prison in Indiana