Capital Punishment

Amber McLaughlin's scheduled execution for murdering a former girlfriend will be the first of an openly transgender woman

Christopher Williams, 62, spent 25 years on Pennsylvania death row, before being exonerated of four murders and freed

Inmate Henry Hodges has accused the state of cruel and unusual punishment and inadequate medical and mental health care

Thomas Edwin Loden Jr., who claimed he was "deeply remorseful," was put to death by lethal injection

Randy Halprin was part of a gang of prisoners who fatally shot a police officer in 2000 after they escaped from prison

With less than a month left in office, Gov. Kate Brown used executive clemency powers to change the death sentence to life in prison without the possibility of parole

Scott Eizember is scheduled for lethal injection for the 2003 shotgun killings of an elderly couple

This is the fourth time in 36 years that the death warrant for double murderer Gerald Pizzuto will expire

Alabama agreed to never again use lethal injection as an execution method to put Alan Eugene Miller to death

McEntee's wife said her husband's killer acted as “judge, juror and executioner” in taking his life

The order comes after two failed attempts at lethal injections, calling for a "top-to-bottom" review of the process

It's the second execution since September the state has canceled because of difficulties with establishing an IV line with a deadline looming

Richard Glossip's request for a new evidentiary hearing that his attorneys suggested would prove his innocence was denied

Tracy Beatty received a lethal injection despite his lawyers’ appeals that he should not be put to death because he had a history of mental illness

Board members rejected Murray Hooper’s claims that he was innocent and that there wasn’t credible evidence to support his convictions