A Texas man has been executed for the killing of a Dallas area pastor who was attacked in his church during a robbery. Steven ...

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MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A federal judge on Friday refused to stop what would be the fourth nitrogen gas execution in the U.S., saying the inmate had not proven his claims that the new method is ...

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To honor her memory, USA TODAY is looking back at Brown's life and her death as Frazier's execution approaches. Brown was attacked as she slept in her bedroom in the early morning hours of Nov. 26 ...

(AP) — An man convicted of murdering a woman after breaking into her apartment as she slept was put to death Thursday evening in Alabama in the nation’s fourth execution using nitrogen gas.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina put a third inmate to death in four months Friday as it goes through a backlog of prisoners who exhausted their appeals while the state couldn’t find ...