Samuel L. Smithers' final appeal to halt his execution has reached the nation's highest court, one day after the Florida Supreme Court affirmed his death sentence. Smithers' attorneys filed a petition ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Arkansas hasn't carried out an execution since 2017, when four inmates were put to death over eight days before the state's lethal ...

US District Court Judge Shelly Dick issued a preliminary injunction on Tuesday that temporarily blocked a Louisiana inmate’s execution by nitrogen gas, ruling that the largely untested method could ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A federal appeals court on Wednesday blocked the state from executing an inmate convicted of killing a driver who gave him a ride, upholding a lower court ruling that he can’t ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Days after the Supreme Court upheld a block on an execution by nitrogen hypoxia in Alabama, an Arkansas-based critic of the method returned home to urge lawmakers here to ...