Appeals ... President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, right, and the Australian prisoners Sukumaran, Rush and Chan.

A week before the state was scheduled to execute another prisoner, a key Senate committee voted Monday to expand the list of crimes that would qualify for the death penalty.

Kentucky's lethal injection protocol could be in place by May after a legislative committee raised no objection to the three-drug method used to execute condemned prisoners.

If you murder a "high status" victim, chances are you're going to be sentenced to death.

A convicted killer found unconscious in prison a little more than a day before his scheduled execution has been hospitalized in serious condition as authorities investigate a possible overdose, Ohio prison officials said Monday.

CINCINNATI a ' Catch up on whoa TMs who for the Anthony Kirkland murder trial. He is accused of being a serial killer and if convicted could be sentenced to death.