As of 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 14, the U.S. Supreme Court has yet to issue a ruling on Mississippi death row inmate Charles Ray Crawford's petition to halt his scheduled execution. Crawford's execution ...

Anthony Boyd was the eighth person executed by nitrogen gas since Alabama began using the method last year. His execution came over the strenuous objection of three liberal Supreme Court justices. By ...

Alabama executed Anthony Todd Boyd, 54, with nitrogen gas for a 1993 murder on Thursday, after he used his final words to maintain his innocence and criticize the justice system. Boyd was convicted of ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — An electrocardiogram monitoring the heart of a Tennessee inmate executed by lethal injection in August showed “sustained cardiac activity” nearly two minutes after Byron Black ...

Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves announced the execution of Charles Ray Crawford will proceed as scheduled. Crawford was convicted and sentenced to death in 1994 for the 1993 kidnapping, rape, and murder ...

A South Carolina inmate who killed a man, burned his eyes with cigarettes and then wrote "catch me if u can" on the wall with the victim's blood more than 20 years ago has been scheduled to be ...

An Alabama death row inmate is set to become the seventh man executed in the state with the controversial method of nitrogen hypoxia. Anthony Todd Boyd, 54, is being executed on Thursday, Oct. 23, for ...

Arizona is set to kill its second death row prisoner this year, but experts warn his execution could be torturous. On Friday, the Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry will ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) - A group of people gathered on the steps of the Alabama Capitol Wednesday to make a final appeal to Gov. Kay Ivey to prevent a man’s scheduled execution. The protest, ...

An Alabama man convicted of helping to burn a man alive in 1993 over a $200 drug debt was executed by nitrogen gas on Thursday. Anthony Boyd, 54, was pronounced dead at 6:33 p.m. local time at William ...

Among the last actions by former President Joe Biden before leaving the Oval Office was commuting the death sentences of 37 convicted murderers. Hours after President Trump took over, he ordered the ...

“Take out your phone” is not a typical start to a Supreme Court opinion. But Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s dissent Thursday from the court’s latest refusal to halt an execution only gets more ...