Wesley Ira Purkey’s execution grabbed widespread attention in 2020. The 68-year-old Kansas native was sentenced to death in 2004 for the r— and murder of a teenage girl, Jennifer Long, and the murder ...

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (AP) — A judge on Wednesday halted the execution of a man said to be suffering from dementia, who had been set to die by lethal injection in the federal government’s second execution ...

Warning: This article contains discussion of rape which some readers may find distressing. Death row executions are rarely pretty but one inmate suffered perhaps the worst fate of all back in 2020.