Chadwick Willacy has been on Florida’s death row since 1991 for the murder of Marlys Sather. In 1990, Willacy assaulted Sather at her Palm Bay home and tried to strangle her with a phone cord. When that didn’t work, he set her on fire.

LIBERTY, Mo. (WDAF) — Joshua Rocha was sentenced to death by lethal injection on Monday after he was found guilty of murdering North Kansas City Police Officer Daniel Vasquez. North Kansas City Officer Daniel Vasquez was shot and killed in the line of ...

A man just weeks from execution is asking the Florida Supreme Court to force state agencies to turn over records he says he needs to file a last-ditch appeal, setting up a legal showdown over what information condemned inmates can access before they die.

The Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board voted 3-2 on Wednesday to recommend the governor spare the life of a man scheduled to be executed next week for the 2001 stabbing death of a man during a botched robbery. Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt must now consider ...

A Tennessee death row inmate has opted not to choose how he will die, leaving the state to default to lethal injection for his upcoming execution. Harold Wayne Nichols, convicted in 1990 for the 1988 rape and murder of Chattanooga State University student ...

A Florida man convicted of abducting, raping, and murdering a young mother in broad daylight was executed by lethal injection on Tuesday. Michael Lee King, 54, received a receive a three-drug injection starting at 6 p.m. at Florida State Prison near Starke.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina inmate who killed a man, burned his eyes with cigarettes and then painted “catch me if u can” on the wall with the victim's blood more than 20 years ago has been scheduled to be executed next month. The state ...