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 ...

PALESTINE, Texas — A hearing that could set a new execution date for Texas death row inmate Robert Roberson will be held next week.

Harold Nichols, 64, is also scheduled to die by lethal injection on Dec. 11. Nichols was convicted of rape and first-degree felony murder in the 1988 death of Karen Pulley in Hamilton County. Alabama ...