Gov. Ron DeSantis on Jan. 9 signed a death warrant for Ronald Heath, 64, who would be the first Florida inmate executed in ...

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PHOENIX — Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes took the first steps Friday to put convicted murderer Aaron Gunches to death. Mayes asked the Arizona Supreme Court to set a “firm briefing schedule’’ to ...

Florida has put a record number of people to death this year, more than any other state in the country. So far this year, the state has executed 13 people — a figure higher than any year since the U.S ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A Davidson County chancellor has ordered state prison officials to allow official witnesses to see more of the process when an inmate is put to death. Several media groups including ...

PHOENIX - In Arizona's death chamber in the minutes just before an execution, inmates lay strapped to a table with a white sheet pulled up to their necks. Witnesses who are there partially to ensure ...

The execution chamber at the Idaho Maximum Security Institution, as shown in 2011 ahead of death row prisoner Paul Rhoades’ lethal injection. AP file A group of news outlets, including the Idaho ...