Attorney General Kris Mayes filed a motion to pursue the second execution of her tenure, selecting Richard Djerf, a man ...

The Tennessee Supreme Court set execution dates for four people on death row in 2025. Oscar Franklin Smith's execution May 22 was the first in five years. A judge has temporarily called off one man's ...

Oscar Franklin Smith was sentenced to death for the 1989 killings of his estranged wife Judith Robirds Smith and her sons Chad and Jason Burnett.

Tennessee inmate Oscar Smith was executed by lethal injection on Thursday morning for the 1989 murders of his estranged wife Judith Smith and her teenage sons, ...

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

Newsday Zimbabwe The court heard that Maovere, Munzweru in the company of Nyasha Sango, who is still at large, planned to rob ...

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

After a three-year pause because of problems with execution drugs, Tennessee is resuming the practice saying it now has a safe way to administer a lethal injection.

If the state of Indiana moves forward with the execution of convicted murderer Benjamin Ritchie on May 20 as planned, the ...

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

Gallows built to exactly replicate the original are now part of what visitors can see at the former Kansas State Penitentiary ...