Execution

An annual report on capital punishment says public support and use of the death penalty continued a more than two-decade decline in the U.S. in 2022.

A Mississippi man has been put to death by lethal injection for the rape and murder of a 16-year-old girl more than two decades ago.

The man, identified as Mohsen Shekari, was arrested on a charge of “waging war against God.”

A Texas death row inmate whose case redefined the role of spiritual advisers in death chambers nationwide was executed Wednesday, despite the efforts of a district attorney to stop his lethal injection.

Three hours after the U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way for Alabama officials to execute convicted workplace shooter Alan Eugene Miller, the execution was called off over time and medical concerns.

The last-minute reprieve came nearly three hours after a divided U.S. Supreme Court had cleared the way for the execution to begin.

An Alabama inmate convicted of killing his former girlfriend decades ago was executed Thursday night despite pleas from the victim’s family to spare his life. Joe Nathan James Jr. received a lethal injection at a south Alabama prison after the U.S. Supreme Court denied his request for a stay. James was convicted and sentenced to death in the 1994 shooting...

Members of a Texas House committee on Tuesday repeatedly pressed a prosecutor to use his authority to stop the April 27 execution of Melissa Lucio, whose conviction is being questioned amid growing doubts about whether she fatally beat her 2-year-old daughter.

During hours of relentless questioning, Melissa Lucio more than 100 times had denied fatally beating her 2-year-old daughter.

Julius Jones was scheduled to be executed at 5 p.m. ET in Oklahoma on Thursday.

Jones, who is on death row for the July 1999 murder of Paul Howell, is scheduled to be executed Thursday.

Willie B. Smith III, who avoided execution in February, has been put to death for the 1991 killing of a woman abducted during a robbery and then shot in a cemetery.