Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Christa Pike has broken her silence one month after surviving a botched execution in Tennessee, telling supporters she "woke up alone in a hospital confused and in pain" after the state ...

Gov. Mike Braun’s administration will not allow death row inmate Jeffrey Weisheit to undergo additional brain scans before his scheduled execution next week. The decision follows weeks of legal efforts by his attorneys to obtain additional medical evidence for his clemency case.

CHRISTA Pike’s execution doctor — a Sunday school teacher and evangelical Christian — has defended his role helping put inmates to death and compared the criticism he has faced to the

California Gov. Gavin Newsom is reportedly considering commuting sentences for 563 death row inmates, sparking fierce backlash from victims' families.

Arkansas death row inmate Eric Reid agreed to life in prison on Oct. 26 after being sentenced to death for killing his wife and daughter.

Gov. Ron DeSantis signed his record-tying 19th death warrant of the year, this one for an inmate who killed his cellmate as an escape to better jailhouse conditions given to death row prisoners.

One of Florida’s longest-serving death row inmates has been spared from execution amid reports he is suffering from dementia – 50 years after he was convicted of a torture murder. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis withdrew William Thompson’s death warrant on Thursday – just five days before the 74-year-old killer’s scheduled execution for what cops at the time called Miami-Dade’s “meanest murder.

The defense's request for additional DNA testing was approved by a judge during a hearing Monday.