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.

A South Carolina man sent to death row twice for separate murders on the same day has been put to death by lethal injection ...

At least 26 people were sentenced to die in 2024, an increase of at least five people from the previous year, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.

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.

A woman who spent five years on death row in the United States is one of the victims of the fire in Connemara which killed two people. Sonia “Sunny” Jacobs, who was aged in her 70s, spent ...

Serial killer Richard Ramirez died 12 years ago on June 7, 2013. Here's everything to know about how Richard Ramirez, a.k.a. the so-called "Night Stalker," died after being sentenced to death.

[From: Society’s Final Solution: A History and Discussion of the Death Penalty, Laura E. Randa, ed., University Press of America, Inc., 1997. Reprinted with permission of the publisher.] As far ...

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.