Tennessee has executed Oscar Smith for the 1989 murder of his estranged wife, Judith Smith, and her sons, Jason and Chad ...

Oscar Smith came within minutes of being executed before Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee issued a surprise reprieve just over three ...

The Tennessee Supreme Court set execution dates for four people on death row in 2025. Oscar Franklin Smith's execution May 22 ...

An Indiana man convicted in the 2000 fatal shooting of a police officer is set to receive a lethal injection this week in the ...

Human justice is never perfect. That’s why the death penalty is so dangerous. Indiana reminds us that it’s still with us.

The Death Penalty Information Center report reveals a disturbing pattern of prosecutorial misconduct in the death penalty ...

A judge has struck down federal prosecutors’ plan to pursue the death penalty in a Reno case after they said they would not ...

The Connecticut legislature’s Judiciary Committee has voted to advance a proposal that would penalize companies that ...

Before Aaron Gunches' execution in March, experts warned that pentobarbitol could cause him to suffer. Here's what the medical examiner's report showed.

However, he allowed criminals to be mutilated for their crimes. During the middle ages, capital punishment was accompanied by torture. Most barons had a drowning pit as well as gallows and they ...