Two men convicted of murder, including one who has spent more than 25 years on Death Row, are to be executed by lethal ...

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

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 ...

Ford was convicted of murdering Kimberly and Gregory Malnory, whose toddler daughter was found covered in her mother's blood ...

South Carolina went 13 years between executions before restarting them last year in part because the state couldn't obtain drugs for lethal injections. A shield law passed in 2023 keeps private the ...

Nearly three years after Brad Sigmon got his third and last reprieve from execution, the death row inmate has been issued a new death warrant. He is set to be executed March 7, the fourth state ...

The death penalty has been abolished in 23 of the country’s 50 states, while three others—California, Oregon and Pennsylvania—have moratoriums in place. Three states—Arizona, Ohio and Tennessee—that ...

An Alabama inmate convicted of murdering a woman after breaking into her apartment as she slept was put to death Thursday ...

Alabama executed murderer and rapist Demetrius Terrance Frazier by nitrogen gas at 6 p.m. Thursday. He was convicted in the ...