Eighty-year-old Dominick Occhicone is set to be executed in Florida on July 28. He's among a growing number of sickly and elderly inmates finally facing their sentences.

Florida is in the process of executing three of its oldest death row inmates back to back — each one older than the last

James Broadnax will soon take his last breath. For the last 17 years, the convicted murderer has been on death row, with his execution date—scheduled for April 30—now fast approaching. His punishment stems from a crime that took place two decades ago ...

The governor of Alabama has granted clemency to a man on death row for three decades, a rare move that spares the accomplice in a 1991 murder from execution on Thursday. Gov. Kay Ivey, in announcing her commutation of Charles Burton’s death sentence ...

The legal process for Florida death row inmates is a long journey involving multiple state and federal court reviews. After state appeals, inmates can petition the U.S. Supreme Court, though very few cases are accepted for review. Even after a governor ...

In a rare ruling for a condemned prisoner, the justices would not let Alabama use a contested method of execution. By Adam Liptak Adam Liptak is the chief legal correspondent and host of The Docket. See more of our coverage in your search results.Encuentra ...

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 the jugular vein in his neck, a witness in the room told ...