Questions remain about Benjamin Ritchie’s early Tuesday execution after his attorneys reported seeing sudden, unexpected ...

Benjamin Ritchie died of the same method early Tuesday in Indiana ... for killing his 74-year-old friend Henry Turner in April 2006. Stanko, 57, is also on death row for killing a woman he was living ...

Other states with scheduled executions this year are Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Ohio, Oklahoma and South Carolina, though ...

DEATH row’s oldest inmate left behind an eerie plea with his final words before being executed by lethal injection. Tennessee inmate Oscar Smith, 75, was put to death on Thursday morning for ...

Tennessee executed Oscar Franklin Smith on Thursday morning for the 1989 murder of his estranged wife and two sons inside of their Nashville home.

The main defense lawyer for Iranian pastor Yousef Nadarkhani, who is appealing a death sentence, may be facing imminent imprisonment for defending the rights of Iranians, according to Amnesty ...