Charles Victor Thompson, a Texas man, had previously escaped authorities’ custody while on death row. The escape led to a three-day manhunt before he was captured and executed by the state, making him ...

Eight days before Tennessee is scheduled to execute another death row inmate, the state's high court met to determine if the lethal injection officials will use to kill him will illegally torture him ...

Tennessee is scheduled to execute death row inmate Edmund Zagorski using the electric chair Nov. 1, the first time the chair has been used here in 11 years. Gov. Bill Haslam delayed the execution to ...

ATMORE, Ala. (AP) — The convicted killer of a police officer used his final moments before being put to death to curse at the state of Alabama, raising his middle fingers in defiance at the start of a ...

Abu-Ali Abdur’Rahman was led into a Nashville courtroom on Aug. 28 wearing shackles and a beige Tennessee Department of Correction uniform. It was the same uniform five men have worn as they were led ...

COLUMBIA, S.C.(AP) — South Carolina's highest court has refused to stop the execution of a man who killed three people over five days more than 20 years ago while leaving taunting messages for police ...