Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. After attending and witnessing the execution of Mark Dean Schwab in 2008, I told myself I would never do it again. There's ...

A registered sex offender who raped and killed a little girl a dozen years ago is scheduled to die Nov. 16 by lethal injection, a judge announced Tuesday at a brief court hearing. State District Judge ...

A Texas death row inmate convicted of a brutal double murder more than a decade ago delivered emotional final words before his execution — apologizing directly to the surviving victim who witnessed ...

LUCASVILLE, Ohio (AP) — A child killer was put to death with no apparent complications Wednesday in Ohio’s first execution since a problem-plagued one 3½ years ago triggered an uproar over the ...

The Florida Supreme Court has given the final go-ahead for the execution of Bryan Fredrick Jennings, convicted decades ago for the 1979 murder of six-year-old Rebecca Kunash. In a decision released ...