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 ...

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

Louisiana has approved a protocol for executions by nitrogen hypoxia, which will allow death sentences to be carried out ...

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

The South Carolina Supreme Court has rejected a death row inmate’s request for information on the most recent execution, ...

The South Carolina Supreme Court has set a March 7 date for the latest execution in the state's suddenly busy death chamber.

Demetrius T. Frazier, convicted of murdering a Detroit teen in 1992, was executed by nitrogen gas in Alabama after an unusual ...

James Williams is an ER doctor, a hunter, a gunshot victim — and the go-to expert for death row prisoners seeking an ...

Marion Bowman Jr., a 44-year-old inmate, is scheduled to be executed Friday night, marking the first execution in South ...

South Carolina is preparing to execute the third inmate to be put to death since September as the state goes through a ...

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