Howard Willis was sentenced to death in 2010 for the murders eight years earlier of newlyweds Adam Chrismer, 17, and Samantha ...

Arizona has set an execution date for a convicted killer on death row, marking the state's return to the death penalty after ...

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

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

A death row inmate tried to say one final word before being executed, after beating and suffocating a pastor to death in ...

Kopp was serving a sentence of 120 to 300 months for second-degree murder, the department said. The Review-Journal previously reported that, according to police, Kopp confessed in a 911 call to ...

Christopher Lightsey, the man who is on death row for a murder he committed in 1993 in Kern County, was resentenced to death on Tuesday. Lightsey, 71, remains incarcerated at San Quentin State ...

Christopher Lightsey, the man who is on death row for a murder he committed in 1993 in Kern County, was resentenced to death ...

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — Condemned inmate Christopher Charles Lightsey was resentenced Tuesday — but his circumstances haven’t changed. Judge John W. Lua resentenced Lightsey to death, the same ...

But for Cooper’s action, 2024 would have been the first year since 2016 in which no state granted clemency to any inmate on death row. In place after place, clemency boards and governors turned ...