Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A jury convicted Jeffery Lee, 50, of the 1998 murders of Jimmy Ellis and Elaine Thompson during a pawn shop robbery. Lee was ...

As Judge Robert Luck wrote in dissent, "for as long as we've had an Eighth Amendment, the Supreme Court has never held that a state's method of execution qualifies as cruel and unusual." Alabama has ...

Until the past 18 months, death row inmates in the United States were executed with mostly one method in modern history: lethal injection. Now, depending on where they're imprisoned, inmates have a ...