Texas is scheduled to execute a man convicted of killing two men as part of a 2004 dispute with his boss at a strip club, and ...

Two states are set to see pauses on executions end as Arizona, Louisiana and South Carolina gave execution dates to three men ...

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 ...

Attorneys have sent an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court after the Florida Supreme Court rejected James D. Ford's latest attempt to stop his execution.

A Kentucky lawmaker is hoping his quest to limit the pardon powers of governors in his state has received a jolt of momentum from public attention over the flurry of pardons and commuted sentences ...

Alabama has carried out the nation’s 4th nitrogen gas execution, putting a man to death for the killing of a woman who was ...

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 ...

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 ...

Big games by former Oscar Smith, Lake Taylor, Warhill and Catholic standouts mark the night in college basketball.

Fifty-six of those have been carried out. There are 119 inmates on death row. “It is time for the state of Ohio to take the pragmatic and economically prudent step to abolish the death penalty,” ...

it has never been easy for inmates on death row to get clemency. For example, in 2023, only one of them succeeded when Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) pardoned John Huffington on the grounds that ...