executions

Only three federal executions have taken place since 1988. Four prisoners are scheduled to be executed over the next two months.

The Tennessee governor is refraining from weighing in on the attorney general's request to schedule executions for nine death-row prisoners and restore a…

As Tennessee ramps up executions, the Republican-led Legislature is considering eliminating one state court's death sentence reviews.Legislation named for…

After four decades with only six executions, Tennessee is on schedule to execute three inmates this year.Edmund Zagorski died in the electric chair…

A Tennessee judge on Thursday upheld the state's use of controversial drugs to execute inmates after a challenge by 33 inmates on death row.Federal public…

Critics of Kentucky's proposed new death penalty method have asked officials to make multiple changes to how executions are carried out now that the state…

Today on NPR: The actor, who's currently up for a Tony Award for the Broadway revival of Death of a Salesman, looks to be on the verge of stardom: In…

Kentucky will change the way it executes prisoners after a judge ordered it to rethink the current injection process that involves three drugs. The move…