The recent surge in executions has four main causes.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Arizona State Sen. Kevin Payne has a very bad idea. Earlier this month, Payne introduced a proposal in the Arizona Senate to ask ...

With 19 executions last year, Florida more than doubled its own record, and put more people to death than Texas, Alabama, and South Carolina combined. This execution spree came even as Florida’s ...

And I'm Robert Siegel. A botched execution in Oklahoma last week has turned a spotlight on how states put inmates to death. In all 32 states that have the death penalty, lethal injection is the ...

A former federal public defender argues Arizona's firing squad execution bill is unconstitutional, legally risky and a step ...

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A Georgia inmate convicted of rape and murder has been put to death in the nation’s first capital punishment since a botched execution in April raised new concerns about lethal ...

Georgia death row inmate Marcus Wellons was denied clemency Monday, a day before he's scheduled to die by lethal injection, NBC News reported. Wellons, who is charged for the rape and murder of a ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — Christa Gail Pike — who was sentenced to death as a teen for the brutal 1995 murder of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer — is suing Tennessee over its execution protocol. The ...

On Tuesday Oklahoma executed its first inmate since the botched April execution of Clayton Lockett, CNN reports. Suggested Reading Have You Heard the Story of James Brown, The Most Sampled Artist Ever ...

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