Texas Gov. Rick Perry shook up the ranks of a state commission that is probing whether a man executed in 2004 belonged on death row. The move came two days before the scheduled testimony of an arson expert critical of evidence prosecutors used to convict Cameron Todd Willingham of murder in 1992.

Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland on Tuesday gave a death-row inmate a one-week reprieve after authorities tried for hours to find a vein to administer his lethal injection.

The presiding judge of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals went on trial Monday, facing misconduct allegations over her refusal to accept a last-minute filing to delay an execution.

The Supreme Court has granted a condemned Georgia inmate’s request that his execution be delayed as he attempts to prove his innocence.

South Carolina officials have set a May 8 execution date for a man convicted of killing an Orangeburg police officer 16 years ago. Prison officials say 34-year-old Thomas Ivey can choose electrocution or lethal injection.

A South Carolina bill that would bar people from identifying members of a state execution team has advanced.

A Florida rapist convicted of murdering his girlfriend’s teenage daughter more than 25 years ago has been executed.

The family of a woman murdered in Dorchester County almost 16 years ago says Friday’s execution of her killer, Joseph Gardner, won’t bring any closure.