Utah lawmaker ends push to abolish death penalty
Republican lawmaker says he didn't have enough time or votes to pass the measure before midnight deadline
Capital Punishment
Amid drug shortage, Virginia Senate approves use of electric chair
Like many states, Virginia has struggled to obtain lethal-injection drugs because drug companies have protested their use in execution
Death Row in Livingston, Texas
60 Minutes cameras go inside the busiest death row in America where Bill Whitaker talks to condemned men who have been given execution dates
Florida overhauls death penalty in bid to resume executions
The bill sent to Gov. Rick Scott Thursday does not apply to the 389 inmates now sitting on Florida's death row
Report: No death penalty in Va. student murders
The man accused of killing Virginia college students Morgan Harrington and Hannah Graham is expected to be spared the death penalty in a Wednesday plea deal, WTVR reports
Death sentence tossed for mother of "Baby Lollipops"
The mother of the three-year-old child found dead in 1990 deserves a new trial, the Florida Supreme Court ruled Thursday
Georgia to execute ex-Navy crewman
Travis Hittson, 45, is scheduled to be executed at 7 p.m. Wednesday for the 1992 killing of a fellow sailor
Texas inmate to be executed Tuesday for 1990 slaying
Gustavo Garcia is scheduled to die by lethal injection Tuesday night for the shotgun slaying of a suburban Dallas liquor store clerk
Georgia to execute its oldest death row inmate
Convicted killer Brandon Astor Jones, 72, is scheduled to be put to death by lethal injection at 7 p.m. Tuesday
Mississippi could debate firing squad as execution method
State's attorney general asks legislature to approve alternative methods of execution in case lethal injections are barred
Man executed in Alabama: "I hope this brings closure"
Christopher Brooks, convicted of 1992 rape and beating death of a woman, held the hand of a prison chaplain as first drug began flowing
Texas executes its first inmate of 2016
"Sometimes you have to live and die by the choices you make. I made mine and I'm paying for it," convicted killer Richard Masterson said before lethal injection
Saudi beheadings reach highest level in decades
Kingdom's rise in executions coincides with number of people put to death for non-lethal offenses
Jeb Bush says he struggles with the death penalty
The former governor and 2016 candidate says his Catholic faith influences his policy decisions, but he breaks with the church on this issue
The Execution of Joseph Wood
An execution of a man in Arizona with a new cocktail of drugs was supposed to take about 10 minutes. It took almost two hours, the longest execution in U.S. history
Texas man addresses "loved ones" before being executed
Raphael Holiday, who set fire that killed three children, becomes 13th person to be put to death this year in Texas
Serial killer sentenced to death, for the fourth time
Oregon killer Dayton Leroy Rogers has been spared on appeal three times; he killed eight women in the 1980s
Appeals court rejects Calif. death penalty challenge
Court reverses lower court ruling that found state's death penalty unconstitutional because of excessive delays
Missouri execution on hold while court considers appeal
Man convicted of beating three people to death claims execution drug could cause painful seizures due to benign tumor in his brain
Last meals of death row inmates
In his "No Seconds" series, photographer Henry Hargreaves captures the haunting images of death row inmates' last meal requests
Photographer recreates the last meals of death row inmates
In his "No Seconds" series, photographer Henry Hargreaves captures the haunting images of death row inmates' last meal requests
Black death row inmate sentenced by white jury before Supreme Court
Timothy Tyrone Foster does not deny killing a 79-year-old woman, but he says he didn't get a fair trial; Supreme Court to hear his case
Florida executes man convicted of fatally stabbing ex-wife, daughter
Jerry Correll put to death nearly three decades after being convicted of killing four people, including his 5-year-old daughter
Workplace beheading suspect: "We all have to die"
Clinical psychologist testifies accused Oklahoma killer Alton Nolen is intellectually impaired with IQ of 69; prosecutors say they'll seek the death penalty
Cleveland kidnapper Ariel Castro sentencing underway
Sentencing is underway for Ariel Castro - the man who held three women captive for about a decade in his Cleveland home
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