This year is expected to see capital punishment carried out more often than any other year since 2009. Experts weigh in on ...

Tennessee death row inmate Harold Wayne Nichols has declined to chose between the electric chair and lethal injection for his ...

Harold Wayne Nichols, 62, was sentenced to death in 1990 after he was convicted of raping and murdering Karen Pulley, a ...

Tremane Wood was scheduled to be executed in Oklahoma on Thursday. Gov. Kevin Sitt commuted his death sentence to life ...

An Oklahoma death row inmate was hospitalized Thursday after being found unresponsive in his cell, just hours after being ...

Editor's note: This database contains descriptions of violent crimes. There are 113 people sitting on Ohio's death row. Some were sentenced to death decades ago, for murders committed in the 1980s and ...

Tennessee death row inmate Harold Wayne Nichols declined to choose between the electric chair and lethal injection before his ...

Tremane Wood, convicted of murder during a robbery 20 years ago, is undergoing a clemency hearing as his family maintains his innocence.

Dozens of prisoners who were on federal death row but had their sentences commuted under former President Biden will be moved to supermax prisons, Attorney General Pam Bondi announced Thursday. Biden, ...

Hideko Hakamada campaigned for almost six decades to get her little brother, the world's longest-serving death row inmate, ...