Clive Stafford Smith, who is retired from Death Row law, continues to campaign against the penalty and claims the US is ...

If two more executions proceed as planned before the end of June, the same number will have taken place in the first half of ...

Most of the 23 states that still have an active death penalty allow a certain number of journalists to witness executions, as ...

When Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed the warrant for the state to execute convicted murderer Michael Bell, he tied the state ...

With pleas failing in state and U.S. supreme courts, Thomas Lee Gudinas is set to be executed for the 1994 Orlando murder of ...

Minnesota abolished the death penalty in 1911 and there are few examples of it being pursued for crimes in the state.

The bromance between the US President and the erratic tech billionaire spectacularly imploded this week - with both sides making wild and unsubstantiated claims about each other on social media ...

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 ...

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 ...

For the past five years, no more than 24 executions occurred annually — but 2025 is already near that mark, with more ...

In the death chambers of the Mississippi Delta, on a rainy night in an Indiana penitentiary, and in the early hours at an ...