Forty-three years after Randy White's wife was murdered just minutes after he kissed her goodbye for the last time, he has witnessed the execution of her killer. Kayle Barrington Bates, 67, was ...

The State Newspaper reporter Ted Clifford was a media witness to the execution by firing squad of Stephen Bryant. Bryant pleaded guilty to the murder of Willard Tietjen, Cliff Gainey, and Christopher ...

Florida is set to execute a death row inmate for the kidnapping and stabbing death of a young woman who was attacked at work more than four decades ago. Among the witnesses to Bates' execution on ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — This morning at Riverbend Prison, the state Department of Correction executed Tennessee death row inmate Byron Black. This happened after a controversial couple of weeks ...

This story is part of a series examining the death penalty in Texas. You can read more about how the system works here and how it is waiting for execution on Texas' death row. HUNTSVILLE, Texas — A ...

Nashville — Thirty-three years after he raped and killed a little Knoxville girl, Billy Ray Irick took his last, loud breaths in Tennessee’s execution chamber. And I watched. As a WBIR journalist, I ...

Today, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a federal lawsuit along with The Guardian and The Oklahoma Observer against Oklahoma prison officials. The lawsuit seeks to take the literal ...

David Pittman, convicted of a brutal 1990 triple homicide, is set to be executed by lethal injection at 6 p.m. this evening, concluding a legal battle that has spanned over three decades. The 35-year ...