The Indiana Parole Board had previously recommended that Braun reject clemency for Ward, who raped and murdered a 15-year-old ...

The United States executed two death row inmates on Thursday evening -- one in Alabama and the other in Texas -- during a ...

Geoffrey Todd West was put to death on Thursday using nitrogen gas, a method introduced by Alabama last year, in what was one ...

Geoffrey Todd West, 50, was put to death at William C Holman Correctional Facility in Alabama. He was convicted of the murder ...

Trump’s latest action in Washington, D.C., revives capital punishment in a city that abolished the practice in 1981, ...

The board’s decision is advisory. State law gives the governor sole authority to decide whether to accept the recommendation ...

The son of a woman murdered in 1997 is asking Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey to stop the execution of Geoffrey Todd West, saying he ...

Unless a court intervenes, Roy Lee Ward will be the third person executed since Indiana resumed capital punishment in ...

An Alabama man convicted of killing a woman during a 1997 gas station robbery was put to death Thursday after he apologized ...

Officials took a former death row prisoner from his cell in Terre Haute and transported him to South Carolina over the ...

The U.S. Bureau of Prisons has transferred eight former federal death row prisoners to its supermax facility in Colorado.

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi called the commutations of 37 people on death row a “stain” on the criminal justice system in ...