Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. After attending and witnessing the execution of Mark Dean Schwab in 2008, I told myself I would never do it again. There's ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The State Newspaper reporter Ted Clifford was a media witness to the execution by firing squad of Stephen Bryant. Bryant pleaded ...

Florida is set to execute a death row inmate for the kidnapping and stabbing death of a young woman who was attacked at work more than four decades ago. Among the witnesses to Bates' execution on ...

A capital defense attorney reflects on the final hours of her client’s life and the enduring fight for dignity amid state-sanctioned death. EDITORS NOTE: Claudia Van Wyk is a senior staff attorney ...

While officials with the Texas Department of Criminal Justice are blaming miscommunication for preventing reporters from witnessing the state’s first execution in nearly a year, legal and death ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - A group of news organizations is suing Tennessee’s Department of Corrections commissioner and a prison warden over the limitations the state’s execution methods present to ...