The Rev. Jeff Hood has witnessed 11 executions: four in Oklahoma, three in Alabama, two in Texas, one in Missouri and one in ...

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

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

Louisiana had gone more than a decade without any executions. Now, state leaders are ramping up efforts to carry out those sentences for death row inmates.

But a judge condemned Smith to death anyway—a maneuver known as judicial override, which would eventually be outlawed in Alabama. Existing sentences, however, were allowed to stand.

Between 2021 and 2023, 100% of all executions in the U.S. were done by lethal injection. In the last year and a half, 16% have involved other methods.

In January 2024, Alabama made history when it conducted the first execution by nitrogen gas in the United States, strapping a mask on the face of inmate Kenneth Eugene Smith and depriving him of ...

A death row inmate in Alabama is asking the state not to perform an autopsy on his body after his execution because of his Muslim faith. Keith Edmund Gavin, 64, is slated to be executed by lethal ...

"Gregory Hunt spent more time on death row than Karen spent alive. If he had any real evidence of innocence, he had more than three decades to present it. He did not. What he and his supporters ...

Before the procedure took place, he was asked whether he had any final words, to which he replied 'no' before giving a ...

Three Alabama inmates were put to death in 2024 using nitrogen gas: Kenneth Smith, Alan Miller, and Carey Dale Grayson. In February 2025, the state executed Demetrius Terrence Frazier using gas.