Tennessee death row inmate Gary Wayne Sutton had been scheduled to die by lethal injection on Dec. 3. A reprieve from Gov. Bill Lee does not overturn his convictions or death sentence, but it means the execution cannot move forward

In deciding his death sentence, jurors did not have evidence of a childhood stroke that affected Wessinger’s mental capacity, attorneys say.

Pope Leo XIV called the death penalty "inadmissible" on World Day Against the Death Penalty after the Pentagon announced plans to livestream an execution.

Recently, the spotlight has been on a failed lethal injection in Tennessee and the announcement that a federal execution will be broadcast live in December.

Jeffrey Weisheit was given the death penalty for the 2010 murders of two children in Vanderburgh County.

When Christa Pike tortured and killed her classmate Colleen Slemmer in 1995, support for the death penalty was near its peak in the United States.

The botched execution in Tennessee of Christa Pike, who survived despite being subject to two doses of lethal injection on Wednesday, has reignited furious debate about the death penalty in the U.S.

Christa Pike became the first death row inmate to survive lethal injection Wednesday in what an expert dubbed a “singular and unparalleled” event. Pike, 50, was strapped to a gurney in the Riverbend Maximum Security Institution’s death chamber just before 7:30 p.

Gavin Newsom ramped up talks after a botched execution in Tennessee. By Laurel Rosenhall Reporting from Sacramento Gov. Gavin Newsom, a possible presidential candidate, is seriously considering whether to spare the lives of all 563 prisoners on death row in California as one of his final acts in office,

A man on Oklahoma death row is set to plead his case before the Pardon and Parole Board on Wednesday.