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 ...

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, ...

For the first time in state history, Idaho prison officials on Wednesday were unable to successfully carry out a lethal injection when members of the execution team could not locate a suitable vein to ...

Nearly eight months after the first failed execution in Idaho history, the state prison system has in place changes to its lethal injection procedures in efforts to maintain capital punishment and ...

Kenneth Smith's wife has described the anxiety-filled hours leading up to Alabama's failed execution of her husband. Smith, 57, was scheduled to be put to death for a 1988 murder-for-hire killing of a ...

An inmate in Alabama was strapped to a death chamber gurney for hours Thursday evening, his lawyers say, as courts weighed appeals over his execution in the murder-for-hire plot of a pastor's wife.

KUNA, Idaho — Idaho halted the execution of serial killer Thomas Eugene Creech on Wednesday after medical team members repeatedly failed to find a vein where they could establish an intravenous line ...