Alabama plans to carry out its fourth execution of 2025 Thursday evening, putting Geoffrey Todd West to death by nitrogen gas ...

North Carolina Republican legislators are poised this week to approve criminal justice measures designed to toughen bail ...

A Republican-drafted crime bill introduced in response to the fatal stabbing on Charlotte’s light rail last month appeared to ...

West was convicted of capital murder for the 1997 shooting of 33-year-old Margaret Parrish Berry. Berry’s son, Will, has said ...

Geoffrey Todd West is set to die around 6 p.m. in Atmore. He did not have any pending appeals going into his execution day.

Unbeknownst to the executioners, one would fire a dummy bullet so they wouldn’t know exactly who killed Charlie Kirk’s ...

Seeing some images of olden times may seem somewhat cartoonish. Because these events happened a long time ago, they can ...

Louisiana's infamous electric chair — dubbed by death row inmates as “Gruesome Gertie” — was last used for an execution in 1991, when the state moved to lethal injections as the sole method to carry ...

The proposal was added to Iryna's Law during debate late Monday evening. It added a partisan element to a bill that had ...

The United States has two executions scheduled for Thursday -- one in Alabama and the other in Texas -- during a year that ...

Until the past 18 months, death row inmates in the United States were executed with mostly one method in modern history: lethal injection. It's a unique situation globally. While many nations are ...