The most recent U.S. execution took place Friday, when Brad Sigmon, 67, died by firing squad in South Carolina. Sigmon, who ...

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A Texas man convicted of beating and suffocating a Dallas area pastor in his church during a robbery was put to death ... three months. Steven Lawayne Nelson, 37 ...

Death by firing squad and medical-aid in dying, taking an oral solution of drugs mixed with apple juice, are alternative execution methods that would be more “humane,” Hoffman’s attorneys said.

A wife has been saved from death row after a British professor stepped in to help with her case, making a major discovery about her trial for killing her husband. Brenda Andrew, 61, has been ...

Brad Sigmon, 67, chose to be killed by bullets, saying he feared the alternatives of the electric chair and lethal injection would risk a slower and more painful death. He was convicted of beating ...

Just moments before Steven Battle was shot in the middle of the street on Rockaway Ave. near Somers St. in Bedford-Stuyvesant at about 2:40 a.m. Saturday, he caused a stir inside the trendy Daily ...

In a final statement read before his death, Sigmon said he wanted his "closing statement to be one of love and a calling to my fellow Christians to help us end the death penalty." "An eye for an ...