Thomas Whitaker appears in a booking photo by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice in Huntsville, Texas. The Texas Catholic bishops said Gov. Greg Abbott’s decision to stop the execution of ...

In 1996, Kenneth Eugene Smith was convicted of committing a murder for hire in 1988, stabbing Elizabeth Sennett to death on behalf of her husband. The husband died by suicide when he became a suspect ...

Disturbing new evidence of lethal injection’s flaws and failures — and of this nation’s execution problems — came to light during the last week of May in Tennessee and Oklahoma. Such problems often ...

Bryan Jennings raped and killed a child in 1979. After 46 years and three trials, he’s still fighting to avoid Florida’s record-setting executions.

Kenneth Fagan of Westfield is an Information Technology specialist who has held many roles within IBM, starting as a customer service dispatcher and working most recently as a technical sales ...

Utah became the only state that allows firing squads for executions when Gov. Gary Herbert signed a law Monday approving the method for use when no lethal injection drugs are available, even though he ...

On Aug. 29, the state of Florida plans to kill Loran Cole, a man convicted of raping a young FSU coed and killing her brother in the Ocala National Forest in 1994. The coroner will list “homicide” as ...