Just hours before Roy Lee Ward was executed by lethal injection in Michigan City, a group of about 30 people, dressed in coats and some holding flashlights, prayed for an end to the death penalty.

CHICAGO -- An Indiana man convicted in the 2001 rape and murder of a teenage girl was executed by injection early Friday in the state's third execution since resuming capital punishment last year. Roy ...

A federal lawsuit filed on behalf of a man scheduled to be put to death next week alleges that Florida prison officials used expired drugs in at least four recent executions. Prison drug supply logs ...