A Florida man convicted of beating and choking his 13-year-old step-niece to death nearly 50 years ago is set to be executed Thursday evening. James Ernest Hitchcock, 70, is scheduled to receive a ...

When Florida executes James “Ernie” Hitchcock on Thursday evening, the state will be ending the life of a prisoner who has ...

Trump’s DOJ announced last week it is bringing the practice back to federal death row. Death penalty critics are concerned ...

Tennessee is scheduled to execute death row inmate Edmund Zagorski using the electric chair Nov. 1, the first time the chair has been used here in 11 years. Gov. Bill Haslam delayed the execution to ...

James Ernest Hitchcock, a Florida man convicted of murdering his brother's 13-year-old stepdaughter in 1976, was executed at ...

A 58-year-old Florida death row inmate claimed that prison officials used expired drugs and skimped on the doses for the last four executions in the state, according to a bombshell lawsuit filed a ...

Idaho’s prison system will have a team of riflemen ready to go by the time a state law on using firing squads for the death ...

The development of Idaho’s execution procedures by the director of state prisons will be shielded from the public and not subject to court review under a bill the Legislature sent to the governor’s ...

The number of prisoners awaiting execution nearly doubled last year according to a new survey released by the government.Despite a national moratorium on executions, the survey shows the number of ...