Mississippi has executed the longest-serving man on its death row nearly 50 years after he was convicted of murder.

Missouri is one of two states where a judge can hand down death when juries cannot agree unanimously on a sentence.

As of June 19, 2025, there were 169 people on death row in Texas. Four of them are women, including Melissa Lucio, who was convicted in 2008 of beating her 2-year-old daughter to death.

Currently, four states — Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi and Oklahoma — specifically authorize execution by nitrogen hypoxia, according to records compiled by the Death Penalty Information Center.

The men on death row could access self-paced HSE prep programs on electronic tablets, which Central Prison gained in 2022, Acree said. And they received HSE study books in 2024, Mitchell said.

As South Carolina prepares to execute a man by firing squad on Friday, here are the ways each state conducts capital punishment, according to Death Penalty Information Center: Georgia, along with ...

When 29-year-old Christopher Edward Debord of Germantown was convicted of robbing and killing a man, the judge sentenced him to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

The death penalty is utilized as a form of criminal punishment in 27 states. This includes California, Pennsylvania, Oregon and Ohio, where governors have currently placed executions on hold.

And support for the death penalty is down nationally, at 53% in a 2024 Gallup poll, from a high of 80% in 1994. The system is being upheld by politicians who say, “It’s the law, and we must ...

President Joe Biden announced Monday that he is commuting the death sentences of 37 of 40 men on federal death row. Dylann ...

An 81-year-old death row inmate who was convicted of the brutal murder of his young stepson died one month before he was scheduled to be executed by the state of Louisiana, according to local repor… ...

Oklahoma's only female death row inmate, Brenda Andrew, 61, could get another chance in court due to "sex-shaming" during her trial, per a Tuesday Supreme Court ruling.