Federal execution

Inmates on federal death row tell The Associated Press that a leading topic of conversation through air ducts they use to communicate is whether President Joe Biden will keep a campaign pledge to halt federal executions

An Associated Press review of court filings shows executioners who put 13 inmates to death during the Trump presidency offered sanitized, incomplete versions of the executions to judges

The U.S. government has carried out its first execution of a female inmate in nearly seven decades

An inmate scheduled to be executed just days before President-elect Joe Biden takes office has tested positive for coronavirus

A newly released report says the U.S. government for the first time has carried out more executions in a year than all states that still conduct executions.

Former trucker Alfred Bourgouis, who was convicted of beating his 2-year-old daughter to death while making a trip to Corpus Christi in 2004, would be the 10th federal death-row inmate put to death since federal executions resumed in July.

Kim Kardashian says she had a tearful conversation with convicted murderer Brandon Bernard just before he was executed for killing two people when he was 18.

The Trump administration has carried out its ninth federal execution of the year in what has been a first series of executions during a presidential lame-duck period in 130 years

The U.S. government has executed a former soldier who said an obsession with witchcraft led him to kill a Georgia nurse he believed had put a spell on him.

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

After the Supreme Court’s decision not to stop the execution of Daniel Lewis Lee, the U.S. government carried out the first federal execution in nearly two decades on Tuesday.