death penalty

Alabama is seeking to become the first state to execute a prisoner by making him breathe pure nitrogen.

Alabama executed a man on Friday for the 2001 beating death of a woman as the state resumed lethal injections following a pause to review procedures.

A court in central China says a Chinese kindergarten teacher who poisoned 25 of her students, killing one, has been executed.

The man had spent 29 years behind bars for murder, child abuse and sexual assault convictions in the death of his girlfriend’s daughter.

Erica Byfield reporting on the ongoing death penalty trial.

Jurors reached a guilty verdict in the federal death penalty case of a 34-year-old man who killed eight people on a Manhattan bike path five years ago in a bid, prosecutors said, to impress a terrorist group.

Sayfullo Saipov was found guilty on all counts Thursday. He said he was inspired by ISIS videos to commit mass murder and chose a truck to inflict maximum damage against civilians in a horrific 2017 attack — the deadliest terror attack in the city since 9/11. NBC New York’s Erica Byfield reports.

Jurors reached a guilty verdict in the federal death penalty case of a 34-year-old man who killed eight people on a Manhattan bike path five years ago in a bid, prosecutors said, to impress a terrorist group.

More than 5 years after the terror attack, Sayfullo Saipov’s trial has reached closing arguments. Erica Byfield reports.

Unless Missouri Gov. Mike Parson grants clemency, Amber McLaughlin, 49, will become the first openly transgender woman executed in the U.S. She is scheduled to die by injection Tuesday for killing a former girlfriend in 2003.

An annual report on capital punishment says public support and use of the death penalty continued a more than two-decade decline in the U.S. in 2022.

Three hours after the U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way for Alabama officials to execute convicted workplace shooter Alan Eugene Miller, the execution was called off over time and medical concerns.

The last-minute reprieve came nearly three hours after a divided U.S. Supreme Court had cleared the way for the execution to begin.

Alabama told a federal judge that it could be ready as soon as next week to use a new, untried execution method called nitrogen hypoxia to carry out a death sentence. Nitrogen hypoxia is a proposed execution method in which death would be caused by forcing the inmate to breathe only nitrogen, thereby depriving the person of oxygen needed to...

An Alabama inmate convicted of killing his former girlfriend decades ago was executed Thursday night despite pleas from the victim’s family to spare his life. Joe Nathan James Jr. received a lethal injection at a south Alabama prison after the U.S. Supreme Court denied his request for a stay. James was convicted and sentenced to death in the 1994 shooting...

Melissa Lucio, a Texas mother of 14, has been on death row since 2008 after she was convicted of killing her 2-year-old daughter. Her execution was delayed just two days before she was scheduled to die to allow a lower court to review new evidence — including arguments that her confession was coerced. Molly Parmer, a criminal defense attorney who...

More than four years after the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, the procedure to determine the gunman’s fate is has begun with jury selection.

During hours of relentless questioning, Melissa Lucio more than 100 times had denied fatally beating her 2-year-old daughter.