Another board member, Wayne Bennett, was the sheriff in Glynn County, where the trial was moved because of pretrial publicity ...

U.S. District Judge Eli Richardson dismissed Nichols' lawsuit on Nov. 26, ruling that the statute of limitations barred him from challenging his method of execution. His attorneys at the Federal ...

KENNESAW, Ga. (AP) — A Georgia judge on Monday ordered a temporary pause to a December execution that was already put on hold ...

Stacey Humphreys' execution in Georgia is halted as parole board suspends both the lethal injection and clemency hearing.

Tennessee death row inmate Harold Wayne Nichols declined to choose between the electric chair and lethal injection before his Dec. 11 execution. Nichol declined to make his choice Nov. 10, a statement ...

Former Florida State Prison Warden Ron McAndrew argues that Florida's rapid scheduling of executions is pushing the state's ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — A federal judge Wednesday told lawyers for a South Carolina inmate scheduled to die in two days that he doesn’t plan to stop the execution because they didn’t have evidence ...

Georgia’s State Board of Pardons and Paroles has temporarily stopped the execution of Stacey Humphreys, which had been scheduled for Wednesday night.

ATLANTA - A Georgia judge on Monday ordered a temporary pause to a December execution that had already been put on hold, ...

A man convicted of killing a couple during a home‑invasion robbery, and later confessing to three additional murders, was the ...

ATMORE, AL -- Thirteen minutes into his execution by injection, an Alabama inmate heaved and coughed and appeared to move during tests meant to determine consciousness. Ronald Bert Smith Jr., 45, was ...