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Carey Dean Moore has been on death row for almost 40 years.

Oklahoma is one of many states attempting to move beyond lethal injection as a method of execution.

Doyle Lee Hamm's execution was abandoned after 2.5 hours when medical staff could not find a suitable vein in his groin, feet or legs.

Capital punishment cases are down but five of the 23 executions this year still highlight the arguments of those who oppose the death penalty.

An opioid at the heart of America's drug epidemic will be used for death row executions in Nevada and Nebraska if the never-before-tried combination of drugs is approved.

A Nevada inmate has asked a judge for his execution to take place on Tuesday after pleading for a year to be put to death.

The forensic pathologist doesn’t want his legacy to be creation of the country’s first lethal injection method.

The state rushed to execute death row prisoners before a drug used in lethal injections expired.

The double execution took place days after the state ended a nearly 12-year hiatus on executing prisoners on death row.

Ledell Lee, one of eight men sentenced to death, was executed on Thursday night.

Staring in January, Ohio will again begin executing inmates after halting the practice in 2014.

Battaglia murdered his daughters, aged 6 and 9, as their mother listened on the phone.

The state was unsuccessful when it first tried to execute Romell Broom in 2009.

Texas to execute Coy “Elvis Wayne” Wesbrook after spending 17 years on death row.

Georgia is slated to execute a former sailor on Wednesday for the murder and dismemberment of a fellow shipmate 24 years ago.

James Freeman, now 34, is set to be executed on Wednesday for the 2007 shooting death of state game warden Justin Hurst.

Alabama is slated to carry out its first execution using a new and controversial three-part lethal injection cocktail.

Richard Masterson is set to be executed on Wednesday by lethal injection for the January 2001 strangulation murder of Darin Honeycutt.

Oscar Bolin was found guilty of murdering three women nearly 30 years ago.

Only six states carried out executions in 2015.

A new report estimates that 300 people on death row served in the military.

Gallup found that 61 percent of U.S. adults support the execution of a person convicted of murder.

Escamilla is scheduled to die at 6 p.m. local time by lethal injection, the 12th execution in Texas this year.

The request follows the state's chemicals mix-up in the Richard Glossip case.

Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin issued death row inmate Richard Glossip a stay of execution on Wednesday afternoon.

His lawyers had hoped newly submitted evidence would bolster his case.

Firing squads replacing lethal injections remind us the death penalty is an ultraviolent punishment.

The U.S. carried out the fifth most executions in 2014, a new report shows.

Sixty-six percent of those executed in 2014 belonged to a minority.

Texas attorneys have another opportunity to argue that it is unconstitutional to execute the mentally ill.