Last week was a really bad one for America’s death penalty. Over the course of just two days, Nov. 16 and 17, four people were supposed to die by lethal injection, and three of those executions were ...

Alabama corrections officials apparently botched an inmate's execution last month, an anti-death penalty group alleges, citing the length of time that passed before the prisoner received the lethal ...

Alabama has trouble executing people. That trouble has caused some experts to call for a halt on executions until the state can figure out how to do it better. Some episodes take hours. One man seemed ...

More than three hours after the scheduled start time, Joe Nathan James Jr. was executed for a crime he committed nearly 30 years ago. Since his death, emerging details about what occurred in the death ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama corrections officials apparently botched an inmate’s execution last month, an anti-death penalty group alleges, citing the length of time that passed before the ...

Idaho prison officials will attempt to execute the state’s longest-serving death row inmate next month using new protocols after botching the first attempt several months ago.A judge issued a death ...

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 ...