Texas man executed for abduction-slaying
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A San Antonio man with a previous conviction for manslaughter was executed Thursday for the abduction, rape and fatal stabbing of a woman more than 12 years ago.
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A former high school honors student was executed late Tuesday evening for the death of a woman who was one of four people gunned down in a holdup at an East Texas bar.
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This file photo provided by the Texas Dept. of Criminal Justice showing Texas death row inmate Frances Newton who is set for execution by lethal injection in Huntsville on Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2004.
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A man convicted of murder during a  $15 robbery a decade ago was executed in Ohio on Wednesday, the  seventh in the state this year.
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A condemned prisoner planned to tell a joke Tuesday as part of his final statement before being executed for the abduction and killing of a couple who lived next door to him.
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Two hours before she was to have been executed by lethal injection, convicted killer Frances Elaine Newton on Wednesday received a 120-day reprieve from Texas Gov.
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HUNTSVILLE, Texas  - Texas executed a former deputy sheriff on Wednesday for the murder of a Houston woman during the robbery of a wedding chapel and flower shop she owned with her mother.
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A confessed serial killer due to be  paroled from a Texas prison in April 2006 was convicted of  murder on Wednesday for the stabbing death of a Michigan woman  25 years ago.
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HUNTSVILLE, Texas  - A Texas man was put to death  by lethal injection on Tuesday for killing an elderly Houston  couple in a 1992 robbery.
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TALLAHASSEE, Florida  - Florida prison officials   on Wednesday executed a 48-year-old death row inmate for the   1982 murder of a Pensacola police officer in a case that   ignited debate over the use of lethal injection.
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A man convicted of fatally shooting a Muncie police officer more than 16 years ago was executed early Friday.
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A man who was charged this month with raping and kidnapping his estranged wife apparently shot her and three family members to death in separate houses, then killed himself, authorities said Friday.
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JARRATT, Va.  - An alcoholic, brain-damaged man  who stabbed an elderly woman to death with a pair of scissors  in 1996 was executed in Virginia on Thursday night.
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Tennessee carried out its second execution in 45 years early Wednesday, and train-hopping serial killer Angel Maturino Resendiz went to his death in Texas by asking his victims&#039; families for forgiveness.
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HUNTSVILLE, Texas  - Texas executed a former   addict on Tuesday for the 1991 murder of a 52-year-old Houston   paint contractor who refused to hand over money for the man's   drug habit.
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A Texas man scheduled to be executed on Tuesday wants to die laughing.
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A man whose death sentence for impulsively killing a woman during a 1992 robbery was opposed even by some capital punishment supporters was executed by injection early Friday.