An Alabama death row inmate who beat a minister's wife to death for a $1,000 payout and survived lethal injection last year is fighting the state's decision to kill him with nitrogen hypoxia, a new ...

Attorneys for Kenneth Eugene Smith believe he was strapped to the death chamber gurney at Holman Correctional Facility for four hours Thursday night as the state began preparing for his execution at 7 ...

A death row inmate suffered a gruesome botched execution when a strap on the electric chair broke, engulfing him in flames and filling the room with the smell of "burning flesh". John Louis Evans III, ...

THE botched execution of a death row prisoner has been described as torture after he was ‘poked and prodded’ for nearly two hours. “He did say it was a day he’d never forget,” said David Stebbins, ...

The botched execution of a murderer in Oklahoma Tuesday is again highlighting the ongoing controversy stemming from a number of American states who are straining to continue with the death penalty ...