A murderer who burned his neighbour alive after she found him burgling her home has been executed nearly 40 years later.

With another execution set, Brevard’s death row is nearly empty as Florida carries out a record number of executions.

A man just weeks from execution is asking the Florida Supreme Court to force state agencies to turn over records he says he needs to file a last-ditch appeal, setting up a legal showdown over what ...

With only 15 days remaining before his scheduled execution, attorneys for death row inmate James Hitchcock have filed a ...

Christa Pike, the only woman on death row in Tennessee, launched a lawsuit against the state in a bid to stop her scheduled ...

Chadwick Scott Willacy, 58, was executed by lethal injection Tuesday evening at Florida State Prison in Bradford County for ...

Willacy was executed by lethal injection at Florida State Prison in Bradford County on Tuesday after spending decades on ...

Only one of the 42 people on Tennessee’s death row is a woman, who is imprisoned for allegedly torturing and killing her fellow classmate in 1995. Christa Pike is scheduled to be the first female ...

Attorneys for Alabama Death Row inmate Charles Lee “Sonny” Burton are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review his case, arguing he was deprived of choosing his trial defense and that the state ...

Texas’ highest criminal court has overturned the death sentence of Clarence Curtis Jordan, who was on death row for nearly 50 years. Jordan was convicted in 1978 of murdering a Houston grocer. He ...