Update at 8:19 p.m. ET. Execution Fails: According to reporters tweeting from inside the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester, Oklahoma, the execution of Clayton D. Lockett has failed. Lockett ...

A bungled execution in Oklahoma is providing death penalty opponents with a fresh example of how lethal injections can go wrong. But the odds of successfully challenging the nation’s main form of ...

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An Alabama inmate was executed by lethal injection on Thursday evening, the state's attorney general confirmed, marking the state's third execution this year. Keith Edmund Gavin, 64, was convicted on ...

The US Justice Department has reintroduced the firing squad as an execution method, reflecting a shift in federal death ...

A 23-year-old Florida woman is headed to prison after orchestrating a chilling betrayal, setting up a male friend to be ambushed and executed by her boyfriend just days after the couple reconciled.

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. As fervently as some may support the death penalty by lethal injection, when the process becomes the ...