Justice Sonia Sotomayor said Florida, which has made the death penalty a priority, must be more transparent about how it's killing death row inmates.

Trotter’s legal team long argued for mercy based on their client's intellectual disabilities and the fact that he was high on crack at the time of the crime and came to the store unarmed, ...

A Florida man convicted of killing a grocery store owner was executed Tuesday, marking the second execution in the state this year.

Florida carried out its second execution on Tuesday at 6:15 p.m. A group of 50 people held a vigil outside the Florida State ...

A man convicted of killing a grocery store owner is set to become the second person executed in Florida this year ...

The Florida Supreme Court issued a ruling on Tuesday that paves the way for the execution of Melvin Trotter, a 65-year-old ...

In this interview, law professor Corinna Barrett Lain discusses her book 'Secrets of the Killing State,' which exposes the troubling realities behind lethal injection as a method of execution. Lain, ...

Indiana's spending on execution drugs revealed, showing $100,000 for October and a total of $1.275 million on pentobarbital.

Ronald Health was put to death by lethal injection on Tuesday in Florida, the state that carried out more executions last year than any other.

Kendrick Simpson, 45, was scheduled to receive a lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary for his convictions in the 2006 killings of 19-year-old Anthony Jones and 20-year-old Glen Palmer, ...

California issued a stay of execution for Michael Angelo Morales in 2006, sparking a debate about the ethical implications of ...

An execution in the state of Alabama is raising more questions about a controversial drug used in lethal injections. Late last night, Alabama executed Ronald Bert Smith, a convicted murderer. In that ...