The highest court in Texas on Tuesday issued a rare stay of execution for David Leonard Wood, who has always denied being the so-called Desert Killer and reiterated his innocence in a recent ...

Pon Hoss being made over open fire. This morning daughter Loretta and Dustin brought two-year-old Denzel, one-year-old Byron and nine and half week-old baby Kylie here around 6:30 a.m. Loretta had ...

Andy Elliott says he isn't sure now if he wants her killer, Jessie Hoffman Jr., to be executed on Tuesday ... families and friends lost a great human being to a senseless series of crimes ...

A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction Tuesday to halt the scheduled execution. More Hoffman's attorneys alleged nitrogen hypoxia equated to cruel and unusual punishment in violation the ...

A federal judge has halted Louisiana’s first death row execution using nitrogen gas, which was scheduled to take place next week. US District Court Judge Shelly Dick issued a preliminary ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina man convicted of murder was executed by firing squad Friday ... from when the hood was placed to the shots being fired. Randy Gardner holds the ashes ...

MESA, AZ — A prisoner scheduled to be executed next week in what would be Arizona’s first use of the death penalty in over two years has passed up a chance to ask for a reprieve from his death ...

Arizona Prisoner Set to Be Executed Next Week Passes up Chance to Ask for Reprieve PHOENIX (AP) — A prisoner scheduled to be executed next week in what would be Arizona’s first use of the ...

As South Carolina prepared to carry out the first execution by firing squad in the U.S. since 2010, Catholic activists against the death penalty had sought clemency from that state's governor.

While granting life-term punishment, with a non-parole period of 30 years, the jury described the crime as ‘premeditated and elaborately executed’. Balesh Dhankar, who was arrested in 2018 ...

COLUMBIA, South Carolina -- A South Carolina man convicted of murder was executed by firing squad Friday ... was pronounced dead at 6:08 p.m. after being shot by three volunteer prison employees ...

The South Carolina double murderer executed by firing squad was in “great spirits and ready to go join the Lord” as he faced his demise, his brother told The Post. Brad Sigmon, who became the ...