The Florida Supreme Court will not stop the execution of a man who killed a woman in downtown Orlando in 1994.

This collection of columns examines the debate in South Carolina over methods of execution for death row inmates. The articles discuss the involvement of the Newman family, with Clifton presiding over ...

Lawyers for a South Carolina death row inmate will be in federal court Wednesday trying to convince a judge that the state is not properly carrying out lethal injections or firing squad ...

While four inmates being scheduled to die in the same week is not an anomaly in the U.S., their executions present an overall ...

Two men were executed in two different states on Tuesday evening, bringing a final, grim chapter to a close for crimes ...

Florida executed Anthony Wainwright for the rape and murder of Carmen Gayheart. Alabama executed Greg Hunt shortly after for Karen Lane's rape and murder.

More than three decades after he and another escaped prisoner kidnapped a woman outside a Lake City supermarket and murdered ...

As Florida inserts a needle to deliver a fatal drug to Anthony Wainwright, Alabama will strap a mask on Greg Hunt and pump him with nitrogen gas.

Anthony Wainwright was convicted of kidnapping and killing Carmen Gayheart after he and another man escaped from prison in North Carolina.

Between 2021 and 2023, 100% of all executions in the U.S. were done by lethal injection. In the last year and a half, 16% ...