Warren Hill (pictured) was convicted of a 1985 murder, and was sentenced to death after being convicted of beating a fellow inmate to death in 1990. He is scheduled to be executed by the state of Georgia tomorrow evening. Warren Hill's IQ is 70. He has been found by a court to be mentally retarded. Georgia plans to kill him anyhow.

It's just not good enough to kill them, in Texas. Because following last night's execution of Lawrence Brewer, a white supremacist who killed a black man by dragging his body from the back of his pick-up truck and eventually severed his head, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice has decided to stop granting special "last meals" to those being executed. Brewer's meal, see, was over-the-top!

Troy Davis, the death row inmate whose guilt in the 1989 murder of Officer Mark Allen MacPhail has been seriously called into doubt, was executed by lethal injection at 11:08 p.m. ET after the Supreme Court refused to stay his execution. With his last words, he reportedly maintained his innocence to the McPhail family.

Troy Davis has become a cause celebre for death penalty opponents and fans of justice in general—primarily because there's substantial doubt about whether he's actually guilty of the crime he's sentenced to die for.

Texas shouldn't be the only U.S. state that gets to execute innocent people, right? That's what the jealous state of Georgia seems to be saying in planning to execute Troy Davis, convicted of murdering a police officer in 1991 and possibly innocent of the crime.

Andrew DeYoung was to be executed via lethal injection on Wednesday night in Georgia — an execution of some historic significance, in that it was to be the first to be videotaped in nearly two decades. But his execution was postponed at the last minute, and officials aren't saying why.

Tomorrow, the state of Texas will kill Mark Stroman by means of lethal injection. Today, a man he tried to murder, Rais Bhuyian, is praying Texas will spare Stroman's life.

Two Iranians have been sentenced to death for running porn sites. One man was convicted of "designing and moderating adult content websites" and "insulting the sanctity of Islam." Hugh Hefner should send a squad of Playboy bunnies to rescue them.

On Stephen Fry's BBC show QI, Graham Norton coaxes the Harry Potter star into trying out the guillotine on stage. One thing leads to another and suddenly Daniel Radcliffe is headless. Video ends without resolution.

What do you do if you're a state executioner facing a shortage of drugs for lethal injections? You improvise. That's what Oklahoma is trying to do, by using pentobarbital — the same drug used to euthanize animals — on humans.

British author Alan Shadrake was sentenced to six weeks in prison in Singapore for a book critical of the country's penal system.

Here's the latest horror story about Texas' justice system, where the same tale never ceases to shock: A convicted murderer executed in 2000, after being denied a crucial last-minute DNA test by Gov. George W. Bush, may have been innocent.

Google helped create an ad calling for California's "worst criminals" to get the death penalty, with "no exceptions." But it was inadvertent; Google doesn't even support sentencing people to death. Whoops.

Arizona executed Jeffrey Landrigan by lethal injection yesterday even though the anaesthetic used may have been obtained illegally.

California has received a fresh supply of lethal injection drugs after canceling an execution because of a shortage

Two men found shot dead execution-style in their SUV near Union Square in Manhattan yesterday were each witnesses to separate murders in NYC last year—but cops don't think that's why they were killed.

Albert G. Brown Jr., convicted in 1982 of raping and strangling a 15-year-old girl, was scheduled to be executed tomorrow. But a judge canceled his execution today because California's supply of the lethal drug sodium thiopental is about to expire.

41-year-old Teresa Lewis died tonight by lethal injection in Virginia. She offered sex and money to two men in exchange for killing her husband and stepson, though her defense attorney claimed she was borderline mentally-disabled.

Good news for death row inmates: The company that produces one of the three drugs used in lethal injections, sodium thiopental, has run out until next year. Well, except for Gregory Wilson, who will get Kentucky's last dose this month.

The government of New York spends the majority of its time deciding which of our cute animal brethren it wants to massacre next. First, the geese got a death warrant. And now they're coming for your friend, Mr. Lemur!