For condemned prisoners in Texas, the final 14 days unfold under a rigidly scripted routine that culminates in the death chamber. The Texas Department of Criminal Justice claims that its execution ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Tennessee is set to execute an inmate Tuesday without deactivating his implanted defibrillator, as uncertainty lingers about whether the device will shock his heart when a lethal ...

A new date for the execution of Oklahoma Death Row inmate Tremane Wood could soon be set following a delay requested by the Oklahoma Attorney General. Wood, sentenced to death for the fatal stabbing ...

A day after a Brevard County circuit judge rejected their arguments, attorneys for condemned killer Bryan F. Jennings on ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A judge’s order to take a Tennessee death row inmate to the hospital on the morning of his execution so doctors can deactivate his heart-regulating implant would cause “chaos,” ...

Roberson said he was placing his hopes for another execution stay in the hands of his lawyers, his supporters and God.

A Texas judge has rescheduled the execution of a death row inmate who won a rare stay of execution last year as prison officials were poised to administer his lethal injection. Judge Austin Reeve ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee hospital says it never agreed to a request by state officials who face a court order to turn off a death row inmate’s heart-regulating implant before his execution ...