A Nigerian man, Kolawole Oladeji, who was sentenced to death in January 2003 over a stolen generator, has regained his freedom after more than two decades in detention. SaharaReporters learned on ...

THE CLOCK IS TICKING. Gov. Gavin Newsom still has a year and a half left in office, but advocates are starting their call now for him to commute, or reduce, all death sentences in ...

The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled for a Texas death row inmate who is seeking DNA testing to show he should be ineligible for execution.

Richard Gerald Jordan, one of America's longest-serving death row inmates, will be executed on Wednesday, with the ...

How many people have been executed in Mississippi? How were their deaths conducted? How many women executed? Any notable ...

Gudinas, 51, was executed by lethal injection on Tuesday, June 24, for the murder of 27-year-old Michelle McGrath in Orlando ...

U.S. District Judge Henry Wingate denied Jordan's motion for a preliminary injunction while Jordan continues to challenge ...

The Rev. Jeff Hood, a witness to 11 executions, plans to travel to Parchman to pray outside if Richard Jordan’s is executed ...

MyHorryNews' Managing Editor Tommy Cardinal witnessed the execution of Stephen Stanko, who died by lethal injection on Friday ...

If two more executions proceed as planned before the end of June, the same number will have taken place in the first half of 2025 as in all of 2024.

Most of the 23 states that still have an active death penalty allow a certain number of journalists to witness executions, as ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Latavious Johnson, a 43-year-old death row inmate, died on Friday, June 6, according to the Arkansas Department of Corrections. Johnson was previously serving a life sentence ...