Several executions are expected to take place in the United States this week, with two scheduled Tuesday and one each on Thursday and Friday. The executions were ordered in Alabama, Florida, Oklahoma ...

The stage is set for the fourth double execution in the United States this year on June 10. As Florida inserts a needle to deliver a fatal drug into Anthony Wainwright’s vein, Alabama will strap a ...

Louisiana has not executed anyone in 15 years. Now, under a pair of death warrants signed this week, the state could soon execute two people back-to-back. Judges in St. Tammany Parish and DeSoto ...

In nearly simultaneous decisions, courts in two U.S. states on Tuesday blocked the imminent executions of death row inmates. The highest court in Texas issued a stay of execution for David Leonard ...