ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First/AP) — The planned execution of a convicted Cobb County murderer has been halted until at ...

Death row executions nearly doubled this year compared to last in a rise driven largely by one state — FloridaOn Thursday night, Florida executed its 19th person on death row this year, more than ...

Execution warrant for Stacey Ian Humphreys expires as parties await decision over potential conflicts on clemency board.

Stacey Humphreys had been set to be executed on Wednesday, Dec. 17, for the double murder of 21-year-old Lori Brown and ...

Frank Walls, who confessed to five Okaloosa County homicides, was executed Thursday, 38 years after the brutal murders of an ...

A man convicted of killing a couple during a home‑invasion robbery, and later confessing to three additional murders, was the ...

Georgia's parole board has put an execution scheduled for Wednesday on hold. The order suspending the execution of Stacey ...

The execution of Frank Walls marked the highest number of state-sanctioned killings by a single state in more than 15 years.

Wednesday's scheduled execution of a Cobb death row inmate has been suspended as the State Board of Pardons and Paroles considers a clemency application.

Georgia’s State Board of Pardons and Paroles has temporarily stopped the execution of Stacey Humphreys, which had been ...

A report from the Death Penalty Information Center shows Alabama played a key role in executions and new death sentences.

If any event in Iraq should have been completely under the control of U.S. forces and the government they defend, it was the final moments of condemned former dictator Saddam Hussein. Unfortunately, ...