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Citing an agreement he made to avoid execution, the Florida Supreme Court tossed a death sentence given to an escaped Louisiana inmate

Carlton Gary, known as the “stocking strangler,” was convicted of raping and killing older women in attacks

Herman Bell was imprisoned for the 1971 killings of Officers Joseph Piagentini and Waverly Jones

Officials said they plan to use nitrogen gas to execute inmates, marking the first time a U.S. state would use the gas to carry out capital punishment

Delaware’s Supreme Court found the state’s death penalty unconstitutional in August 2016, when 13 men were on death row

The only other penalty option for Nikolas Cruz is life in prison with no possibility of parole

Michael Eggers is scheduled to be executed Thursday for the 2000 choking death of Bennie Francis Murray

Whether the proposed settlement would include a ban on setting another execution date for Hamm was unclear

The suspect was armed with a large fixed-blade knife, two TASERs, handcuffs and gloves

Lawyers for a man set for execution next week are asking Georgia’s parole board to spare his life