According to the Death Penalty Information Center, 25 people were executed in the United States in 2024. The number of death sentences imposed was 26. There are 2,092 people on death row in the United ...

During his 20 years behind bars, Richard Lee Tabler says he's found God and leads a ministry of Death Row inmates. He's ...

In Pennsylvania, it’s possible to be convicted of murder and receive a life sentence without parole without ever having harmed another person. This is how the state’s felony murder charge, also known ...

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Since Texas reinstated capital punishment and adopted lethal injection as its means of execution in 1977, the state has put ...

SCI Rockview, Pennsylvania’s first State Correctional Institution to contain a “death house,” could close down soon after recommendations from the Department of ...

Tam Le, a 53-year-old inmate on death row at the State Correctional Institution (SCI) at Phoenix, was found unresponsive in ...

An inmate on death row at the State Correctional Institution at Phoenix was found unresponsive in his cell and declared dead, authorities announced. Inmate Tam Le, 53, was found unresponsive in his ...