Tennessee executed Oscar Smith after years of delays, with the 75-year-old using his final words to denounce the justice system and insult the governor.
A South Carolina man scheduled for execution must choose whether he'd like to die by firing squad, lethal injection, or the electric chair, or the state will decide for him.
A Texas death row inmate was executed Thursday, the country's second lethal injection of the day, expressing remorse for the 2004 murders at a Killeen strip club.
A Florida death row inmate convicted of murdering a young couple in front of their 23-month-old in 1997 had his final meal and was executed by lethal injection.
An Arizona death row inmate is asking the state's Supreme Court to expedite his execution, bypassing legal formalities to have his sentence carried out sooner.
Quadruple murderer Joseph Corcoran is set to die before sunrise Dec. 18 and the death of convicted child killer Kevin Underwood is expected to follow shortly after
With time running out, Thomas Creech's legal team scrambles to halt a second execution attempt, raising last-minute constitutional challenges after a failed lethal injection in February.
Derrick Dearman, 36, who openly welcomed death after he was convicted of the sextuple slayings of his then-girlfriend's family, died by lethal injection
The execution of Robert Roberson, 57, is slated for Thursday evening after having spent 20 years on condemned row for the capital murder of his 2-year-old daughter Nikki Curtis in Palestine, Texas in 2002.
