Death penalty

An Alabama man convicted in the 1994 killing of a female hitchhiker cursed at the prison warden and made obscene gestures before being put to death in the nation’s third execution using nitrogen gas.

South Carolina has put Richard Moore to death by lethal injection for the fatal shooting of a store clerk in Spartanburg.

Despite saying credible evidence of his innocence has been raised, the Supreme Court of the United States has denied a stay for Texas death row inmate Robert Roberson III and said it’s up to Gov. Greg Abbott to issue a 30-day stay.

Robert Roberson’s attorneys are asking for a 30-day stay of execution before Thursday.

The state’s Republican attorney general agrees that Richard Glossip’s conviction should be thrown out based on problematic testimony at trial.

A man convicted of killing three people in workplace shootings has been executed with nitrogen gas in Alabama.

The executions in Alabama, Missouri, Oklahoma, South Carolina and Texas will mark the first time in more than 20 years that five were held in seven days.

South Carolina has put inmate Freddie Owens to death in the state’s first execution in more than a decade.

The fate of a Missouri man convicted of killing his cousin and her husband nearly two decades ago appears to rest with the U.S. Supreme Court, with just hours to go before the scheduled execution.

A convicted killer on death row in Alabama told NBC News he no longer wants to delay justice for the families of the five people he murdered eight years ago and is ready to pay the ultimate price for his crimes.

Kenneth Eugene Smith appeared to shake and convulse before being pronounced dead Thursday at an Alabama prison after breathing the gas through a face mask to cause oxygen deprivation.

Alabama executed a convicted murderer with nitrogen gas Thursday, putting him to death with a first-of-its-kind method that once again put the U.S. at the forefront of the debate over capital punishment. The state said the method would be humane, but critics called it cruel and experimental.

Alabama intends to put a man to death with nitrogen gas this week unless stopped by the courts. It would be the first execution attempt with the method in the U.S.

Alabama is preparing to attempt the nation’s first execution using nitrogen gas.

NBC6’s Christian Colón is live from Miami where there has been a major twist in a Coral Gables double murder trial.

On Thursday, Jose Rojas, who could face death if convicted, informed the court he is considering pleading guilty to his 2012 indictment.

Jose Rojas is facing two counts of first-degree murder, two counts of armed kidnapping and one count of attempted armed robbery in the April 27, 2012 killings.

More than 11 years after a man and woman were murdered inside a Coral Gables office, the death penalty trial of the man who authorities believe is the killer was underway.

A death penalty case began Wednesday for a man charged in the murders of two people inside a Coral Gables office back in April of 2012.

Fresh details have emerged about the 13 federal executions that were carried out in the final six months of Donald Trump’s presidency.