A 23-year-old Florida woman is headed to prison after orchestrating a chilling betrayal, setting up a male friend to be ambushed and executed by her boyfriend just days after the couple reconciled.

A prisoner who survived an execution attempt because of a mistake with a lethal injection drug has got married - almost three years on from his brush with death. Richard Glossip's bride, Leigha ...

Alabama executed Robert Bert Smith on Friday night in what his federal public defender is calling a “botched” operation that appeared to cause Smith pain. He “gasped and heaved” for 13 minutes, ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama corrections ...

A death row prisoner endured a horrifying 45-minute ordeal during a botched execution, leaving the chamber splattered with his blood and him writhing in pain. Clayton Lockett, 38, was sentenced to ...

And I'm Robert Siegel. A botched execution in Oklahoma last week has turned a spotlight on how states put inmates to death. In all 32 states that have the death penalty, lethal injection is the ...

With 19 executions last year, Florida more than doubled its own record, and put more people to death than Texas, Alabama, and South Carolina combined. This execution spree came even as Florida’s ...