Jordan was the state's longest-serving and oldest death row inmate when executed. This comes after the United States Supreme Court denied an application for stay of execution earlier today. Orders ...

Stephen Stanko's lawyers, in their 49-page brief, include a number of ways their experts think South Carolina is improperly carrying out executions.

The JBang team has introduced JBang Jash, a Java library designed to simplify the execution of external processes and shell commands through a fluent and predictable API, aiming to addresses the ...

BOISE, Idaho — Idaho prison officials must allow media witnesses at executions to watch as lethal injection drugs are prepared and administered to a condemned person, a federal judge ruled ...

This is Arizona's first execution in two years. In a Feb. 20 filing, Gunches said he didn’t want to be present at a hearing where he could have bid to not be executed.

Gunches, who isn’t a lawyer but is representing himself, made an unsuccessful bid late last year to skip legal formalities and schedule his execution earlier than authorities were aiming for.

Louisiana has unsealed its execution protocol for nitrogen hypoxia, revealing new details about how the state plans to carry out death sentences.

South Carolina man set to face a firing squad seeks postponement, questioning execution procedures Lawyers for Brad Sigmon want prison officials to release more information about the state's ...

A South Carolina man who is scheduled to die next week by firing squad is again asking that his execution be postponed.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina man who is scheduled to die next week by firing squad is again asking that his execution be postponed and prison officials release more information about ...