Paul Scott, who murdered Boca Raton florist James Alessi, was sentenced to death in 1979. He has survived five death warrants ...

A man who stabbed his friend twice in the heart during an alcohol-fuelled row has been found guilty of his murder. Matthew ...

A Florida death row inmate is scheduled to be killed by lethal injection on Tuesday after a failed appeal citing concerns ...

The Justice Department will seek the death penalty for a man accused of killing a fellow prisoner at the federal government’s ...

Florida on Tuesday evening executed a 48-year-old death row inmate who kidnapped and murdered a woman in 2000, marking the ...

South Carolina is set to execute 42-year-old Mikal Mahdi by firing squad for killing an off-duty police officer who was ...

Lawyers for a Florida man on death row are seeking to halt his execution set for next week, arguing that his obesity could lead to a botched lethal injection.

Your Honor, the defendant’s character, his lack of adaptability, his future dangerousness cry out for the death penalty. The ...

A South Carolina death row inmate on Friday chose execution by firing squad, just five weeks after the state carried out its ...

Mikal Mahdi, who killed a South Carolina police officer during a multi-state crime spree, has chosen to die by firing squad.

The man glares back. “I’m going to take you ... The brainy pharmacist Bart Johnson on Alabama’s death row delights in doing Simpsons impressions for Hood’s cartoon-obsessed son.

The average time spent on death row in Florida before execution is 17 ... the anti-death penalty advocate featured in the film "Dead Man Walking," starring Sean Penn and Susan Sarandon, to ...