Justice Sonia Sotomayor said Florida, which has made the death penalty a priority, must be more transparent about how it's killing death row inmates.

Melvin Trotter was sentenced to death for the brutal 1986 murder of Virgie Langford during a convenience store robbery in ...

Melvin Trotter, 65, convicted of killing a Manatee County grocery store owner, will be the second person executed this year in Florida.

Justice Sonia Sotomayor expressed concerns about Florida’s lethal injection procedure on Tuesday, urging more transparency as the Supreme Court denied a man’s emergency bid to avoid execution later in ...

Indiana's spending on execution drugs revealed, showing $100,000 for October and a total of $1.275 million on pentobarbital.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. TALLAHASSEE — Accusing the state of “reckless maladministration” of the lethal-injection process, an attorney for condemned killer ...

Florida’s rules for animal euthanasia, created in the 1990s, span a full page. Its guidance for executions by lethal ...

The Florida Supreme Court issued a ruling on Tuesday that paves the way for the execution of Melvin Trotter, a 65-year-old ...

California issued a stay of execution for Michael Angelo Morales in 2006, sparking a debate about the ethical implications of ...

Eight days before Tennessee is scheduled to execute another death row inmate, the state's high court met to determine if the lethal injection officials will use to kill him will illegally torture him ...

Oklahoma has carried out its first execution of the year on a man convicted of killing two men in a drive-by shooting.