Idaho officials recently put off the execution of a convicted murderer because the state couldn't legally find the drugs needed to kill him.

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT Clayton Lockett was executed iafter he was convicted of murder, rape and kidnapping - and his ...

At first Oklahoma prison officials suspected that a new drug combination caused Clayton Lockett to writhe in pain and clench his teeth during a botched execution. But a new autopsy report reveals that ...

15 MINUTES. CAMERON. YEAH, BACK TO THE BREAKING NEWS THIS MORNING. OKLAHOMA DEATH ROW INMATE TRAMAINE WOOD WAS JUST SAVED FROM EXECUTION AT THE LAST MINUTE. A DRAMATIC MOVE FROM GOVERNOR KEVIN STITT ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- The botched execution of an Oklahoma inmate is certain to fire up the debate over what constitutes cruel and unusual punishment -- the phrase written into the U.S. Constitution and ...

After a delay in executions sparked by controversy in botched lethal injections, Ohio has scheduled 10 death-row prisoners for executions starting in February, NBC News reported. The next inmate ...

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Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey sought a pause in executions and ordered a “top-to-bottom” review of the state's capital punishment system Monday after an unprecedented third failed lethal injection. Ivey's ...

Harold Wayne Nichols confessed to killing Karen Pulley, a 20-year-old college student, as well as raping several other women in the Chattanooga area. He was sentenced to death in 1990.

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

Tennessee executed Harold Wayne Nichols by lethal injection Thursday in Nashville for the 1988 rape and murder of Karen Pulley, a 20-year-old student at Chattanooga State University.