Byron Black, 69, was executed Tuesday despite warnings that his defibrillator could cause pain. Witnesses say he cried out, ...

He spent 48 years behind bars — more than 45 of them on death row — making him the world's longest-serving death row inmate, according to the Amnesty International.

Ralph Leroy Menzies, 67, is set to be executed on Sept. 5, but his lawyers say his deteriorating mental state, caused by ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee death row inmate can be executed without deactivating his implanted defibrillator, the ...

The fate of a Canadian who has been on death row in Montana for the past 42 years has been thrown into more uncertainty as state legislators try again to remove obstacles to resuming executions.

Ronald Smith, 67, from Red Deer, and has been on death row since 1983 after he and another man, high on LSD and alcohol, shot and killed two cousins near East Glacier, Montana.

Munyakho was working in Saudi Arabia when he was convicted of murdering a Yemeni colleague in 2011. The crime carries the death penalty, but after protracted negotiations, the victim's family agreed ...

PARCHMAN, Miss. — The longest-serving man on Mississippi’s death row was executed Wednesday, nearly five decades after he kidnapped and killed a bank loan officer’s wife in a violent ransom ...

STARKE, Fla. (AP) — A man convicted of killing his estranged wife has died after spending more than four decades on Florida’s death row. Robert Peede, 81, died Monday at Florida State Prison ...

Linda Carty, 66, has spent nearly two decades on death row in the US state of Texas after she was convicted of killing her neighbour Joana Rodriguez, a new mum Share Article Bookmark 0 Comments ...

FILE - Paul Gregory House, 46, who was on death row for 22 years after being convicted in 1986 of murdering Carolyn Muncey in East Tennessee, hoist his drink after seeing a “Free Paul House ...

The fate of a Canadian who has been on death row in Montana for the past 42 years has been thrown into more uncertainty as state legislators try again to remove obstacles to resuming executions.