Death penalty

Next month, Biden, a practicing Catholic, will meet with Pope Francis, who recently called for prayers for U.S. death row inmates in hopes their sentences would be commuted.

An Alabama man convicted in the 1994 killing of a female hitchhiker cursed at the prison warden and made obscene gestures before being put to death in the nation’s third execution using nitrogen gas.

South Carolina has put Richard Moore to death by lethal injection for the fatal shooting of a store clerk in Spartanburg.

Despite saying credible evidence of his innocence has been raised, the Supreme Court of the United States has denied a stay for Texas death row inmate Robert Roberson III and said it’s up to Gov. Greg Abbott to issue a 30-day stay.

Robert Roberson’s attorneys are asking for a 30-day stay of execution before Thursday.

The state’s Republican attorney general agrees that Richard Glossip’s conviction should be thrown out based on problematic testimony at trial.

A man convicted of killing three people in workplace shootings has been executed with nitrogen gas in Alabama.

The executions in Alabama, Missouri, Oklahoma, South Carolina and Texas will mark the first time in more than 20 years that five were held in seven days.

South Carolina has put inmate Freddie Owens to death in the state’s first execution in more than a decade.

The fate of a Missouri man convicted of killing his cousin and her husband nearly two decades ago appears to rest with the U.S. Supreme Court, with just hours to go before the scheduled execution.

A convicted killer on death row in Alabama told NBC News he no longer wants to delay justice for the families of the five people he murdered eight years ago and is ready to pay the ultimate price for his crimes.

The Executive Council rejected a request for a pardon hearing Wednesday in a murder case that helped drive the successful push to repeal New Hampshire’s death penalty. The five-member panel voted unanimously without debate to deny the request from Robert McLaughlin, a Hampton police officer who shot his neighbor, Robert Cushing, to death in 1998. He was convicted in 1990…

Kenneth Eugene Smith appeared to shake and convulse before being pronounced dead Thursday at an Alabama prison after breathing the gas through a face mask to cause oxygen deprivation.

Alabama executed a convicted murderer with nitrogen gas Thursday, putting him to death with a first-of-its-kind method that once again put the U.S. at the forefront of the debate over capital punishment. The state said the method would be humane, but critics called it cruel and experimental.

Alabama intends to put a man to death with nitrogen gas this week unless stopped by the courts. It would be the first execution attempt with the method in the U.S.

Alabama is preparing to attempt the nation’s first execution using nitrogen gas.

Fresh details have emerged about the 13 federal executions that were carried out in the final six months of Donald Trump’s presidency.

Alabama is seeking to become the first state to execute a prisoner by making him breathe pure nitrogen.

Alabama executed a man on Friday for the 2001 beating death of a woman as the state resumed lethal injections following a pause to review procedures.

A court in central China says a Chinese kindergarten teacher who poisoned 25 of her students, killing one, has been executed.