A Florida man convicted of fatally stabbing his cousin’s girlfriend and the couple’s 4-year-old daughter was put to death Thursday evening, the seventh person executed by the state this year. Richard ...

Arizona has executed a death row inmate for setting two people on fire more than 20 years ago, killing one of them and changing the other's life forever. The state executed Leroy McGill, 63, by lethal ...

Three American inmates are set to be executed on Wednesday and Thursday in what stands to become the deadliest week for the death penalty in the U.S. so far this year. Arizona is set to execute Leroy ...

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A Florida man convicted of fatally stabbing his cousin's girlfriend and the couple's 4-year-old daughter was put to death Thursday evening, becoming the seventh person executed by the state this year.

An Arizona man convicted of killing another man by throwing gasoline on him and setting him on fire was executed Wednesday, marking the first of three executions scheduled this week in the U.S. The ...

Tony Carruthers’s lawyers say no evidence ties him to 1994 crimes he was convicted of and he is mentally incompetent Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email Tennessee governor Bill Lee has ...

The execution of Tony Carruthers was called off May 21 after executioners failed to set an IV to administer the lethal injection. He had been scheduled to be executed in Riverbend Maximum Security ...

Arizona executed 63-year-old Leroy Dean McGill by lethal injection at 10 a.m. on May 20 for the 2002 murder of Charles Perez. McGill was convicted in 2004 of first-degree murder, attempted ...

A Florida man convicted of fatally stabbing of his cousin’s girlfriend and the couple’s 4-year-old daughter in Coral Springs nearly 26 years ago was executed Thursday evening. Richard Knight, 47, ...

An NBC News analysis of every final statement shows that some convey a readiness to die. Others are defiant. And many seek salvation. Strapped to a gurney, moments from death, prisoners in Texas’ ...