North Carolina hasn’t executed an inmate on death row in almost 20 years, but death sentences are still being imposed throughout the state.

Prisoners on the North Carolina death row make their way back to their cell block at Central Prison in Raleigh in 2002, not long after a series of reforms began sharply reducing the number of ...

Read the stories behind the three inmates from North Carolina who were on federal death row. Aquilia Marcivicci Barnette. Barnette, of Charlotte, was sentenced in 1998 for the killing of two ...

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

North Carolina has the fifth largest death row in the country. Excluding the 15 inmates whose sentences were commuted, there are currently 121 offenders facing a possible death penalty in the state.

A death row inmate’s attorneys are asking the court to reverse a lower court’s decision that declined to decide eligibility ...

Mississippi has 37 death row inmates and all but one are men. Richard Gerald Jordan, 79, is the longest-serving death row ...

So far in 2025, Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed eight death warrants, tying a record for a single year. Here's a look at who's ...

If you’ve been following Alabama news for a few years, you remember the poop train, a controversy in Central Alabama that ...

Over the next four days, four inmates in four states are scheduled to be put to death – a cluster that, while not abnormal – ...

North Carolina hasn’t executed an inmate on death row in almost 20 years, but death sentences are still being imposed throughout the state.