An autopsy report showed Oklahoma prison officials used an unapproved drug in the January execution of a convicted murderer, whose final words were "my body is on fire."
Support for the death penalty has dipped to its lowest level in 40 years in the United States, a Pew Research Center reveals, though a small majority of Americans still believes in capital punishment.
The National Latino Evangelical Coalition (NaLEC), in a unanimous vote, has come together to urge their 3,000 member congregations to help put and end capital punishment across the country.
An Oklahoma man on Thursday became the first inmate to be put to death after the state's botched execution of Clayton Lockett last year. State prison officials in McAlester declared Charles Warner dead at 7:28 p.m.; it took 18 minutes to carry out the sentence.
A South Carolinian executed at age 14 in 1944 has been exonerated after a judge vacated his murder conviction on Wednesday. George Stinney Jr. is believed to have been the youngest person put to death in the United States in the 20th century.
A federal judge has decided that the death penalty system in California is unconstitutional. A federal judge has decided that the death penalty system in California is unconstitutional.
