Tennessee death row inmate with pacemaker can be executed despite likelihood heart device will prolong suffering: court - ...

Byron Black asked the courts to deactivate his implanted defibrillator ahead of his execution, which is set for Tuesday. The TN Supreme Court overturned the request.

Zakrzewski fled immediately after the murders, retreating to Hawaii's Molokai Island, and managed to evade capture for four months before a minister recognized him on ‘Unsolved Mysteries’ and ...

Each day for the last ten years on death row stretched into eternity for Stephen Munyakho. The nights were even longer.But nothing compared to what inmates called “dark days”—when one among them was ...

By painting their final meal before execution, an artist humanized people sentenced to capital punishment.

RAIFORD, Fla. (WCJB) - Another Death Row prisoner’s execution has been carried out in Raiford, the 9th execution this year.

Florida has executed a 60-year-old Air Force veteran for killing his wife and two children in 1994, marking a record ninth ...

A Tennessee death row inmate can be executed without deactivating his implanted defibrillator, the state's high court ruled ...

Attorneys for death row inmate Byron Black are asking the Supreme Court to step in as questions loom about his intellectual ...

Tennessee officials must deactivate a death-row inmate 's implanted heart-regulating device to avert the risk that it might try to shock him during his lethal injection, a judge ruled Friday.

Ending capital punishment would advance South Korea’s transition to a democracy that respects human rights, including the right to life.

A Texas man on death row is now scheduled to be put to death in October for his conviction in the death of his 2-year-old daughter.