Death row inmates in five states have been put to death in the span of one week, an unusually high number of executions that ...

Alan Eugene Miller became the second death row inmate in the U.S. to be executed using nitrogen gas on Thursday evening, nearly 25 years after the murders of ...

More than half of American states have abolished the death penalty or hit pause on executions. Less than half —47%—of ...

Despicable baby killer Travis Mullis gave his haunting final words following a 16-year spell on death row, before being being ...

Travis Mullis, 38, received a lethal injection at the state penitentiary in Huntsville on Tuesday and was pronounced dead at ...

Oklahoma is set to execute Emmanuel Littlejohn in the murder of Kenneth Meers in a 1992 robbery that turned fatal. Littlejohn ...

Kenneth Meers of Oklahoma City "simply did not have a mean bone in his body." The man convicted of killing him is set to be ...

Some progressives re-upped calls to abolish the death penalty, while conservatives lauded the execution for providing closure ...

Travis Mullis, 38, was executed Tuesday at the Huntsville Unit in Huntsville, Texas, for the killing of his 3-month-old son more than 16 years ago. Mullis was pronounced dead at 7:01 p.m. with just ...

Travis Mullis, 38, was executed on Tuesday in the US for the brutal murder of his three-month-old son, whose body was found on the side of a road in 2006 after he was stomped to death ...