Vietnam veteran Richard Gerald Jordan is set to be executed in Mississippi nearly 50 years after being sentenced to death.

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

Prison officials served death row inmate Oscar Franklin Smith his last meal Wednesday night, about 16 hours before he's scheduled to die by lethal injection. Smith, 75, requested hotdogs, tater ...

The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Friday to hear an appeal by Alabama officials of a judicial decision that a man convicted of a 1997 murder is intellectually disabled - a finding that spared him from ...

DA to seek death penalty against Half Moon Bay mass shooting suspect Chunli Zhao is accused of killing seven people in a January 2023 rampage at two Half Moon Bay mushroom farms.

California death row inmate Julian Mendez killed in Kern Valley State Prison allegedly involving more than 30 inmates, with Mario Renteria as the alleged initial attacker.

The Tennessee Supreme Court has ruled that a Memphis judge did not have the authority to give a man formerly on death row ...

news Crime ‘Here’s your Death Penalty,’ Abbott says of Grapevine hit-and-run case. Is that possible? Daikerlyn Alejandra Gonzalez Gonzalez faces a manslaughter charge in the death of kayaker ...

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The agreement only applied to people on death row whose requests to have their appeals reheard were denied by the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals while the judicial emergency was in place.

Arkansas death row inmate Latavious Johnson died of unknown causes at the Varner SuperMax prison on Friday afternoon, according to the state’s department of corrections. He was in his 40s.

The Death Penalty Information Center maintains the largest national death sentence database. Of nearly 10,000 cases nationally since 1972, about 49% were later reversed, according to an analysis ...