Alabama has set a June execution by nitrogen gas for a man convicted of killing two people during a 1998 robbery of a pawn ...

Nikolas Cruz, who killed 17 people at a high school in Parkland, Fla., in 2018, faces either life imprisonment or the death ...

The last execution in Washington state took place in 2010.

Two sources confirmed to CBS News that Saleh Mohammadi, a young member of Iran's national wrestling team, was among the three ...

Governor Mike DeWine has issued three reprieves for inmates who were scheduled to be executed in 2026.

States put to death 47 people last year, double the recent norm. What’s behind the rise?

Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman praised the General Assembly for overriding the Governor’s veto of Senate Bill 251, ...