Ralph Menzies was once just days away from death by firing squad. The death row inmate died of natural causes on Wednesday.

A man convicted of the 1979 killing of a six-year-old girl who was abducted from her bedroom has been put to death in a record 16th execution in Florida this year.

The death penalty is legal in 27 states, but executions are relatively rare in many of them. In the nearly 50 years since the ...

Stephen Bryant is the seventh person put to death in the state in the last 14 months after a 13-year pause in executions.

A man convicted of fatally shooting a man and woman during home invasion robbery and later confessing to three other killings ...