Ms. DeLiberato has represented defendants in death penalty cases for nearly 20 years. Last month, I walked into Riverbend Maximum Security Institution to watch the State of Tennessee kill my client, ...

For more than an hour, Tony Carruthers lay strapped to an execution gurney in Tennessee's death chamber as his executioners struggled to find a vein. They tried his arms, shoulders, feet, chest and ...

Tennessee’s failure to execute a man by lethal injection last month after no one could locate a suitable vein led to a rare unmasking: Not only was a practicing physician identified as a participant ...

Montgomery, Ala. — A federal judge ruled on Thursday that execution by nitrogen gas doesn't violate the constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment, rejecting an Alabama inmate's claim that it ...

Dusty Ray Spencer is scheduled for execution on June 25 for the 1992 murder of his wife, Karen Spencer. The murder occurred after a history of domestic violence, including a prior attack with a steam ...

A Florida man who confessed to killing his girlfriend's infant daughter and throwing her body in a pond three decades ago was executed Tuesday evening. Andrew Richard Lukehart, 53, was pronounced dead ...

Tennessee death row prisoner Tony Carruthers was issued a one-year stay of execution last Thursday after prison officials were unable to find a backup injection vein in a botched execution attempt ...

Carruthers’ court case was fraught with problems. A second execution attempt would be the kind of cruelty no decent society should countenance On 21 May, Tony Carruthers had an experience that few ...

Florida is scheduled to execute Andrew Lukehart for the 1996 murder of a 5-month-old baby. Lukehart was convicted of striking the infant's head, causing fatal fractures, and then disposing of her body ...

A Texas man was executed Wednesday for the murder of an 18-year-old woman who was raped, fatally shot and dumped in a field. He used his dying words to apologize to the young woman's family. Gonzales ...

Florida executed Andrew Lukehart today, June 2, by lethal injection at Florida State Prison near Starke for the 1996 murder of 5-month-old baby Gabrielle Hanshaw. Lukehart was pronounced dead at 6:19 ...

A Florida man who confessed to killing his girlfriend’s infant daughter and throwing her body in a pond three decades ago was executed Tuesday evening. Andrew Richard Lukehart, 53, was pronounced dead ...