Five death row inmates are set to be executed in a seven-day span for the first time in the US since July 2003.

Lawyers for a Missouri man scheduled to be executed Tuesday evening have filed another appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court that ...

Rodney Reed continues to seek DNA testing on murder evidence in his ongoing legal battle at the Fifth Circuit Court of ...

Marcellus Williams, 55, is set to die Sept. 24 after being convicted of killing former newspaper reporter Lisha Gayle in her ...

"Two on a single day is unusual, and four on two days in the same week is also very unusual," said Robin Maher of the Death Penalty Information Center.

Travis Mullis, 38, is to be executed on Tuesday but has repeatedly waived his right to appeal his death sentence.

Travis Mullis admitted to the killing in a written and videotaped confession. During his trial, defense attorneys asked ...

"Two on a single day is unusual, and four on two days in the same week is also very unusual," said Robin Maher of the Death ...

Death row inmates in five separate states are set to be put to death in the span of one week. If carried out as planned, the ...

By the end of this week, five men across the United States will have died from execution. Texas leads all-time death penalty numbers.

Marcellus Williams, the Missouri death row inmate who has maintained his innocence for nearly 24 years, is scheduled to be ...

The unusually high number of executions defies a yearslong trend of decline in both the use and support of the death penalty ...