Twenty-six men have died by court-ordered execution so far this year in the U.S., and 10 other people are scheduled to be put ...

Byron Black, who has an implanted cardioverter-defibrillator, is scheduled to die by lethal injection on Aug. 5.

An Indiana lawmaker has proposed changes to how the state conducts executions.State Representative Jim Lucas (R) of Seymour ...

A Tennessee judge has ruled that the state can deactivate a death-row inmate's implanted heart-regulating device at a ...

A Chancery Court judge says the state must disconnect the heart defibrillator shortly before the inmate's August execution to ...

A Davidson County judge is holding a rare hearing Tuesday morning that could impact how Tennessee carries out the execution ...

Tennessee officials must deactivate a death-row inmate 's implanted heart-regulating device to avert the risk that it might ...

With lethal injection drugs proving both costly and difficult to obtain, a growing number of Indiana Republican lawmakers and ...

Richard Jordan, the longest-serving and oldest person on Mississippi's death row, was executed on June 25 for the 1976 murder and kidnapping of Edwina Marter.