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The U.S. is also among the world's top five countries in terms of executions.

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

Attorneys for Adam Ward, convicted of killing a city worker in 2005, claim he suffers from delusions, bipolar disorder and paranoia.

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.

An Oklahoma Court granted the death row inmate a stay to give itself time to consider new evidence.

In the 18th century, the mentally impaired were spared the death penalty. Why not now?

Like many states, the feds are having trouble getting the killer drugs.

A case challenges Oklahoma's lethal injection method as a breach of the Constitution's ban on cruel and unusual punishment.

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

Cecil Clayton, who was found guilty of killing a sheriff's deputy in 1996, was missing parts of his brain's frontal lobe.

Despite missing a portion of his brain, Cecil Clayton is scheduled to be executed Tuesday afternoon.

A First Amendment lawsuit is hoping to expose the cruel barbarity of the death penalty.

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.

Cameron Todd Willingham was executed in 2004 on the basis of testimony which has been recanted

The botched Arizona execution is the third this year in the United States, fueling concerns about the drugs used to kill convicted criminals