The United States on Thursday carried out its second federal execution this week, killing by lethal injection a Kansas man whose lawyers contended he had dementia and was unfit to be executed. Wesley ...

A judge on Wednesday halted the execution of a man said to be suffering from dementia, who had been set to die by lethal injection in the federal government's second execution after a 17-year hiatus.

Wesley Purkey was executed Thursday morning after the Supreme Court cleared the way for the second federal execution since 2003. Purkey, 68, was originally scheduled to be executed on Wednesday ...

July 16 (UPI) --The federal government on Thursday carried out its second execution this week after the Supreme Court again lifted a judge's order blocking the lethal injection of inmate Wesley Purkey ...

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. — A judge on Wednesday halted the execution of a man said to be suffering from dementia, who had been set to die by lethal injection in the federal government’s second execution ...

Wesley Ira Purkey, convicted in 2003 in Missouri in connection with the kidnapping, rape, murder and dismemberment of a 16-year-old girl, is scheduled to die by lethal injection today at the United ...

A federal judge this morning halted the execution of a Kansas man convicted of the rape and murder of a 16-year-old Kansas girl in 1998. Wesley Ira Purkey, 68, was scheduled to be executed today. But ...

For the second time this week, a man was executed by lethal injection inside a federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana. Wesley Ira Purkey, 68, was pronounced dead at 8:19 a.m. Thursday. He was ...

For the second time this week, a man was executed by lethal injection inside a federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana. Wesley Ira Purkey was pronounced dead at 8:19 a.m. Thursday. “I deeply regret the ...

The federal government carried out its second execution this week, putting to death a man whose attorneys argued he was not mentally competent. Wesley Ira Purkey was put to death at the Federal ...

A judge on Wednesday halted the execution of Wesley Purkey after his attorneys argued that he isn't mentally fit to be put to death. Purkey, 68, was scheduled to die by lethal injection at the U.S.