Attorneys fighting to prevent two Florida death row inmates from being executed by the state filed a joint lawsuit Friday in federal court. James Aren Duckett and Dominick Occhicone are scheduled to ...

Attorneys for Florida death row inmate James Duckett — who is scheduled to die at noon Tuesday for the 1987 rape and drowning of an 11-year-old Lake County girl — are asking a federal court in Ocala ...

Attorneys for James Duckett, who is scheduled to be executed on Tuesday, have filed an appeal with a federal court in Ocala ...

Alabama's relatively new nitrogen gas execution method could inflict a cruel amount of pain and suffering on a death row inmate who says he'd rather be killed by a firing squad, a federal appeals ...

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The U.S. Army said they are not preparing to carry out executions for the military’s four death row inmates, rejecting reports that they were making moves to execute the inmates. A story by ABC News ...

Capital punishment is legal in 27 US states. Four of those states have governor-imposed moratoriums. According to the Death Penalty Information Center, 25 people were executed in the United States in ...

Some death row inmates have been there for decades, and appeals can go on for years. It's part of the legal process, and here ...

A federal judge has ruled that Alabama cannot execute death row inmate Jeffery Lee using nitrogen hypoxia, finding the state’s protocol violates the Eighth Amendment’s ban on cruel and unusual ...

Lawyers for Dominick Occhicone, who turns 81 next month, say his plan execution is cruel and unusual punishment for the near-incapacitated inmate.