A report from the Death Penalty Information Center shows Alabama played a key role in executions and new death sentences.

Executions continue a cycle of violence and must end, a group of advocates for abolishing the death penalty said during a news conference Tuesday, Oct. 7, on the steps of the Mississippi Supreme Court ...

Minutes after Charles Ray Crawford was put to death Wednesday evening, the Mississippi Office of Capital Post-Conviction Counsel said he “was executed without ever receiving the fair trial we are all ...

A Mississippi man convicted of raping and murdering a college student in the nineties was executed Wednesday after spending more than 30 years on death row, according to officials. In a news release ...

JACKSON, Mississippi -- An appeals court Wednesday upheld Mississippi's method of lethal injection, rejecting arguments from death row inmates who opposed the state's plan to use drugs not ...

PARCHMAN, Miss. — A Mississippi man convicted of kidnapping, raping and killing a 20-year-old community college student in 1993 was executed Wednesday. Charles Crawford, 59, was pronounced dead at ...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Lawyers for the state of Mississippi argued Wednesday that disclosing information could destroy the state's ability to get the drugs needed for executions, urging a federal judge ...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The Mississippi Supreme Court on Friday set an Oct. 15 execution date for the man convicted of kidnapping and killing a college student in 1993. Charles Ray Crawford, 59, has ...

After Charles Crawford was convicted of kidnapping, raping and killing a 20-year-old community college student, he was executed on the evening of Wednesday, October 15, at the Mississippi State ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The Mississippi ...