Oahu Community Correctional Center in Honolulu, Hawaii, with visible prison cells, additional facilities, and a guard tower behind the perimeter fence. (Jeremy Yurow) (CN) — An Indiana law that does ...

MICHIGAN CITY, Ind. − Roy Lee Ward, the man who raped and murdered 15-year-old Stacy Payne inside her Spencer County home in 2001, was executed just after midnight Friday. Ward died at 12:33 a.m., a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Newly released records detail how Indiana has acquired, stored and disposed of pentobarbital since executions in the state resumed ...

It is fair to say the Indiana Department of Correction violated the spirit — and, according to a judge, the letter — of Indiana’s public records law when it refused to disclose how much the state ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Efforts to legalize execution by firing squad in Indiana are stalled after the House failed to pass legislation that would allow ...

A northeast Indiana lawmaker wants to give death penalty advocates serving in the General Assembly the opportunity to have a personal role in the process of state government intentionally ending the ...

NEW YORKNEW YORK — After Sister Barbara Battista, a Roman Catholic nun staunchly opposed to the death penalty, agreed to accompany a condemned man at his execution in federal prison, she wondered ...

New records from the governor’s office show Indiana paid $100,000 for execution drugs used in October – bringing the total amount the state has spent on pentobarbital to at least $1.275 million – and ...

Efforts to legalize execution by firing squad in Indiana are stalled after the House failed to pass legislation that would allow condemned prisoners to be gunned to death. But it's not completely off ...