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Another Texas inmate has had his execution delayed over claims the state is violating his religious freedom by not letting his spiritual adviser lay hands on him at the time of his lethal injection.

A Texas inmate was executed Wednesday evening for an attack that killed his pregnant wife, 5-year-old daughter and father-in-law more than a decade ago.

An investigation has found that new personnel and procedures along with insufficient oversight led to reporters not witnessing the state’s first execution in nearly a year, officials announced on Thursday.

While officials with the Texas Department of Criminal Justice are blaming miscommunication for preventing reporters from witnessing the state’s first execution in nearly a year, legal and death penalty experts worry it’s another example of what they see as a lack of transparency and competency in how the death penalty is carried out in the U.S.

A Texas man convicted of fatally beating his 83-year-old great aunt more than two decades ago was executed Wednesday evening, despite requests from some of the victim’s family to spare his life.

A Fort Worth man convicted of fatally beating his 83-year-old great aunt before taking $30 from her purse is scheduled to die by lethal injection Wednesday.

Arkansas death row inmate Ledell Lee maintained his innocence in the 1993 murder of Debra Reese up until his April 2017 execution.

An Alabama inmate has won a reprieve from a scheduled lethal injection after the U.S. Supreme Court said the state could not proceed without his pastor in the death chamber.

Alabama would be the first state to carry out an execution this year if it wins final court approval to go ahead with plans to put to death a man convicted of murder

The Trump administration has carried out its 13th and final federal execution, five days before President-elect Joe Biden is sworn in

The U.S. government has executed a drug trafficker for a series of slayings in Virginia in 1992, despite his recent COVID-19 infection

Late Thursday, Orlando Hall was put to death for abducting and killing Arlington teenager Lisa Rene in 1994.

A federal prisoner scheduled for execution next month for the 1994 kidnapping and murder of a teenage girl has lost a federal appeal.

Texas’ highest criminal court on Wednesday commuted the death sentence of a Mexican man after agreeing with findings that he was ineligible to be executed because of an intellectual disability.

A new report by a think tank examining executions in the United States says death penalty cases show a long history of racial disparity, from who is executed to where and for what crimes.

A man who killed a Kansas girl more than two decades ago has been executed in Indiana, the fifth federal inmate put to death this year and second this week

The U.S. government has set an execution date for the only Native American on federal death row.

The U.S. government has put to death an Iowa chemistry student-turned-meth kingpin convicted of killing two children and three adults

The United States has carried out its second federal execution in three days, killing by lethal injection a Kansas man whose lawyers contended he had dementia

A U.S. judge has halted the execution of a federal death row inmate whose lawyers argue suffers from dementia