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The Supreme Court granted a rare reprieve to a convicted murderer in Alabama after the inmate argued that proceeding with his scheduled execution without his pastor’s presence in the death ...

TERRE HAUTE, Indiana—The Trump administration early Saturday carried out its 13th federal execution since July, an unprecedented run ...

RICHMOND, Va.—It was one of the worst bursts of gang violence Richmond had ever seen. At least 11 ...

A federal judge has granted a stay of execution pending a competency hearing to Lisa Montgomery, who was ...

A federal appeals court has cleared the way on Friday for the only woman on federal death row ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates—Iran executed an exiled journalist on Dec. 12 over his online work that helped inspire ...

Convicted murderer Brandon Bernard was executed by lethal injection on Thursday at the U.S. Penitentiary Terre Haute, Indiana, according ...

Attorney General William Barr on Nov. 20 directed the Federal Bureau of Prisons to schedule the executions of ...

The federal government prepared Thursday to execute an inmate who was condemned for kidnapping and raping a 16-year-old ...

WASHINGTON—The two attorneys representing the first woman scheduled to be put to death by the U.S. government in ...

WASHINGTON—A woman convicted of fatally strangling a pregnant woman, cutting her body open, and kidnapping her baby is ...

CHICAGO—A former U.S. soldier who said an obsession with witchcraft led him to slay a Georgia nurse in ...

Iranian state TV on Saturday reported that the country’s authorities executed a wrestler for allegedly murdering a man.

As the clock ticks toward the scheduled Wednesday night execution of the only Native American on federal death ...

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz.—Late on a fall evening in 2001, Alyce Slim and her granddaughter stopped at a gas station ...

IOWA CITY, Iowa—A ruthless Iowa meth kingpin who killed five people, including two young girls, in 1993 to ...

The second federal execution this week took place in Indiana after the Supreme Court cleared the way. Wesley Ira ...

The first federal execution in the United States in nearly 20 years took place on Tuesday after the ...

WASHINGTON—The Justice Department filed an emergency motion with a federal appeals court on Saturday seeking to move forward ...

WASHINGTON—The Justice Department is plowing ahead with its plan to resume federal executions next week for the first ...

A Texas inmate who was convicted of fatally shooting an elderly man at his home as he robbed ...

HOUSTON—The U.S. Supreme Court granted a reprieve on June 16 to a Texas inmate scheduled to die for ...

Attorney General William Barr on June 15 ordered the Federal Bureau of Prisons to schedule the executions of ...

A man convicted in the 2004 killings of three police officers in Alabama who were shot by another ...

Alabama was set to put to death an inmate Thursday evening for the 2004 slayings of three police ...

A death row inmate convicted more than three decades ago of stabbing a fellow prisoner to death over ...

Texas executed a death row inmate who was convicted for the murders of five people, including children, on ...