Capital Punishment

No one in the U.S. has been executed by hanging since 1996.

The state's new attorney general asked Oklahoma's Court of Criminal Appeals to slow down the pace of upcoming executions.

Fratta, 65, is set to receive a lethal injection at the state penitentiary in Huntsville, Texas on January 10.

Fratta's attorneys have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to stay the execution, arguing that prosecutors withheld evidence that a witness was hypnotized by investigators.

Eighteen men were put to death in the U.S. this year, with more than half of them in Texas and Oklahoma.

Suspected Colorado Springs shooter Anderson Aldrich faces charges of first-degree murder, prompting questions about where Colorado stands on the death penalty.

Kenneth Smith's execution was called off after officials concluded they didn't have enough time to complete the procedure before a midnight deadline.

Reprieve U.S. said three of the four executions scheduled over a two-day stretch this week were "botched."

Gerald Ross Pizzuto Jr., who has late-stage bladder cancer, is scheduled to die by lethal injection on December 15.

Smith, 57, is scheduled to receive a lethal injection at the William C. Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore on November 17.

Richard Fairchild was convicted for the November 1993 killing of his girlfriend's 3-year-old son, Adam Broomhall.

Hooper's execution was Arizona's third since the state resumed executions after an eight-year pause.

Barbee was condemned for the killing of his pregnant ex-girlfriend and her seven-year-old son.

Arizona, Alabama, Texas and Oklahoma have scheduled executions for November 16 and 17.

Barbee, who was sentenced to death in 2006, was also convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend's 7-year-old son.

During World War II, "saboteurs" were shot, former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said.

Benjamin Cole, 57, is scheduled to die by lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary on October 20.

Ramirez, 38, was executed at the state penitentiary in Huntsville for the 2004 killing 46-year-old Pablo Castro.

Ramirez, 38, was sentenced to death for the 2004 killing of 46-year-old Pablo Castro, a convenience store clerk, in Corpus Christi.

A federal judge said the state can only execute Miller using nitrogen. The method is legal under Alabama law, but has never been tested.

They were among 61 Oklahoma legislators calling for a new evidentiary hearing ahead of Glossip's September execution date..

Coddington is the first of 25 inmates whose execution dates were set last month after a federal judge rejected their challenge to Oklahoma's execution protocol.

The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals set execution dates for 25 death row inmates after a federal judge upheld the state's lethal injection protocol.

Attorneys for the inmates had argued that the use of the sedative midoazolam violated the Eighth Amendment's ban on cruel and unusual punishment

Dixon, 66, died by lethal injection at the state prison in Florence on May 11.

The Arizona Supreme Court struck down an attempt to repeal Clarence Dixon's death sentence.

Clarence Dixon, 66, is set to receive a lethal injection at the state prison in Florence for the 1978 killing of 21-year-old student Deana Bowdoin.

The 66-year-old is set to be the first inmate executed in Arizona in nearly eight years.

Buntion, 78, is scheduled to be executed on April 21 for the killing of a Houston police officer more than 30 years ago.

Retribution is not an effective way of managing basic criminals or mass murderers in society.