James Broadnax was executed Tuesday evening for the 2008 robbery and murders of Stephen Swan and Matthew Butler in Garland.

James Broadnax, 37, was executed by lethal injection in Texas after being convicted of the 2008 shootings of two Christian music producers in Dallas, despite his cousin allegedly confessing to the cri

Convicted of beating and choking the teenager to death nearly five decades ago, Hitchcock offered a brief final statement before his death. As the curtain to the death chamber opened precisely at the scheduled 6 p.m. execution time, Hitchcock lay covered by a sheet, staring at the ceiling.

Attorneys Tuesday asked Governor Greg Abbott for a 30-day reprieve. James Broadnax, 37, is scheduled to be executed Thursday evening.

Tiana Krasniqi - who married James Broadnax just weeks before he was put to death in Texas - says she is haunted by his final moments

ATMORE, Ala. -- Thirteen minutes into his execution by injection, an Alabama inmate heaved and coughed and appeared to move during tests meant to determine consciousness. Ronald Bert Smith Jr., 45, was finally pronounced dead at 11:05 p.m. Thursday night ...

A Florida man convicted of beating and choking his 13-year-old step-niece to death nearly 50 years ago is set to be executed Thursday evening. James Ernest Hitchcock, 70, is scheduled to receive a three-drug injection starting at 6 p.

Little is known about how Indiana acquired pentobarbital, a drug that state officials have used twice for executions in the last year. The drug is expected to be used again for death row inmate Roy Lee Ward’s scheduled execution in October. (Getty Images ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — A federal judge Wednesday told lawyers for a South Carolina inmate scheduled to die in two days that he doesn’t plan to stop the execution because they didn’t have evidence there were problems with the state’s lethal ...