The February death by lethal injection of convicted killer Ronald Heath, 64, came amid a surge in executions pushed forwards ...

Next month, Lisa Montgomery, who strangled a pregnant woman and hacked the unborn child from her womb with a kitchen knife, is due to become the first female executed by the US government in 67 years.

The father and one of the sons of a Florida woman who was kidnapped and murdered paid tribute to her memory and talked about how it felt to see her killer receive his final punishment in exclusive new ...