The Arizona State Courts Building in downtown Phoenix houses the Arizona Supreme Court and the Arizona Court of Appeals. The ...

A May 20 execution has been scheduled for an Arizona man convicted of murder for fatally setting a man on fire during a 2002 ...

Christa Pike is being held on death row in Tennessee, and is set to become the first woman executed in the state in 200 years ...

Tennessee death row inmate, Christa Pike, is set to be the first woman executed in the state in over 200 years. She filed a ...

The murder that Christa Pike was convicted of demonstrated a brutality and callousness not often seen in women, let alone one ...

Arizona's Senate passed a measure that would allow voters to decide on firing squad executions, a method proponents call ...

Florida has executed a death row inmate for the rape and murder of a stay-at-home mom whose death exposed the vulnerabilities of the 911 system nationwide and led to reform within the industry.

An Idaho representative seeks to shield execution team members, and grant greater power to the state prison director over capital punishment.

Legislation would bar courts from reviewing Idaho prison director’s execution protocols. Propsed law aims to codify agency control after past lethal injection procedure changes. Critics warn the ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Arizona State Sen. Kevin Payne has a very bad idea. Earlier this month, Payne introduced a proposal in the Arizona Senate to ask ...

WASHINGTON − Justice Sonia Sotomayor called Florida’s record on lethal injections “deeply troubling,” even as she joined the Supreme Court’s Feb. 24 decision clearing the way for the state’s latest ...