A Tennessee death row prisoner has declared a hunger strike, saying he is protesting issues with medical care, the quality of ...

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 ...

Those housed in the O'Daniel Unit in Gatesville, including such names as Melissa Lucio, have had their lives touched by a ...

This year's nominees examine the aftermaths of gun violence and two female musicians — one a trailblazer and the other just ...

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

Texas's first female condemned killer received special permission to leave jail and be baptized at New Light Baptist Church ...

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

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

OKLAHOMA CITY — The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Tuesday in favor of convicted murderer Brenda Andrew, the only woman on Oklahoma’s death row, ordering a lower court to review whether she got a ...

The state executed Bowman for the 2001 murder of 21-year-old Kandee Martin, a young mother who was killed five days before ...

Bowman was sentenced to death for the Feb. 16, 2001, shooting death of 21-year-old Kandee Martin five days before her son's ...

“Marion has steadfastly maintained his innocence of Kandee Martin’s murder, yet he has already spent more than half of his life on death row. He cannot in good conscience ... think about a Black man ...