Sutton has been on Tennessee's death row since 1996 for the 1992 murder of Tommy Griffin. He and his uncle, James Henderson Dellinger, were...

Christa Pike's execution was scheduled for September 30 but faced complications during the lethal injection process. Media witnesses report...

A federal appeals court has halted Christa Gail Pike's execution while reviewing the consideration of her childhood trauma. Pike, who was c...

Christa Pike, the only female inmate on death row in Tennessee, is set to be executed on September 30. The US Supreme Court has dismissed h...

The Supreme Court ruled that state execution powers are not arbitrary. The method of execution must uphold human dignity and minimize suffe...

The Supreme Court has dismissed a plea seeking an alternative method of execution for death row convicts, rejecting the challenge to hangin...

Bryan Frederick Jennings, convicted in a 1979 child abduction and murder, was executed in Florida. This marks the state's record 16th execu...

The Supreme Court will hear arguments on January 21 regarding a plea to remove hanging as the execution method for death row convicts. The ...

Joseph Corcoran, convicted of a quadruple murder in 1997, was executed in Indiana. This was the state's first execution in 15 years. Corcor...

Officials said Kenneth Eugene Smith, 58, was pronounced dead at 8:25 p.m. at an Alabama prison after breathing pure nitrogen gas through a ...

The top court on March 21 had said it may consider setting up of a committee of experts to examine whether execution of death row convicts ...

"We cannot tell the legislature that you adopt this method. But you (PIL petitioner) can certainly argue that something may be more humane....

Lisa Montgomery, who in 2004 was convicted of strangling a Missouri woman who was eight months pregnant, is expected to receive the lethal ...

However, he is likely to get a reprieve because of a 2015 moratorium on death penalty by Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf.

The apex court agreed to examine whether execution of death sentence by hanging could be replaced by other less painful procedures like by ...

A new virus has been found to be "spreading widely" in the cyberspace which steals bank account details and passwords of the user once it i...

Country's cyber security sleuths have alerted Internet users in the country about the new and suspected variant of malware family called 'W...