Florida is set to execute Frank Athen Walls, which will be the 19th execution in the state this year. This number shatters Florida's previous record of eight executions in a single year. Under Gov.

Attorneys for Frank Walls cited prison drug logs and autopsy records to argue that his Dec. 18 execution could be “disastrous.” The execution chamber is seen at Florida State Prison in Starke. A ...

New photos have emerged of the Simi Valley doctor and his wife in happier times — before they were executed in broad daylight in the garage of their $1.3 million home. Dr. Eric Cordes, 63, and Vicki ...

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 ...

PARCHMAN, Mississippi — Mississippi executed Charles Ray Crawford on Wednesday evening, ending a three-decade legal saga tied to one of the state’s most notorious crimes, the Associated Press reported ...

A Mississippi man convicted of kidnapping, raping and killing a 20-year-old community college student has been executed at the Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman. Charles Crawford, 59, had ...

A Florida man convicted of killing two women whose bodies were found in a rural pond is scheduled to be executed on Tuesday evening.Samuel Lee Smithers, 72, is set to receive a lethal injection ...

For the third time in less than a year, Indiana officials will execute a convicted murderer. This time it will be Roy Lee Ward, the Perry County man who killed 15-year-old Heritage Hills High School ...

Florida has executed two women in its history, including the infamous serial killer Aileen Wuornos. Sixteen women have been sentenced to death in Florida, but most had their sentences commuted or were ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — The State of Tennessee has set the execution date for Christa Pike, who was convicted of brutally stabbing and killing a fellow Knoxville Job Corps worker in 1995. According ...

A man sentenced to death for a 1990 double murder was executed in Florida on Tuesday, marking the state’s 13th execution this year and surpassing its previous annual record. Victor Tony Jones, 64, was ...

The drifter who confessed to killing an inventor and his wife was executed Tuesday night, more than three decades after the double murder in their Miami business. Victor Tony Jones, 64, died by lethal ...