Sisters from a convent outside Waco have repeatedly visited the prisoners—and even made them affiliates of their order. The ...

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 ...

When Brenda Andrew was on trial for murder in 2004 in Oklahoma, a prosecutor named Fern Smith turned to the jury and held up ...

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

TALLAHASSEE — The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected an appeal by Florida Death Row inmate James Ford, setting the ...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An Oklahoma board rejected clemency on Wednesday for a man sentenced to die for fatally shooting a woman ... s death sentence. Stitt has granted clemency only once in his six ...

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

The case has highlighted how accusations of witchcraft can lead to murder in some parts of rural Nigeria Five men ... to death by hanging in Nigeria's Kano state for the 2023 murder of a woman ...

The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected an appeal by Florida Death Row inmate James Ford, setting the stage for his execution Thursday in the 1997 murders of a couple in Charlotte County.

Alabama has carried out the nation’s 4th nitrogen gas execution, putting a man to death for the killing of a woman who was ...

JACKSON, Miss. – Women represent half of the U.S. population but it's still rare for them to have leading roles in setting ...