True Crime Despite recent federal flurry, number of U.S. executions is lowest since 1991 The number of death sentences imposed in 2020 reaches all-time low ...

AS IT was in so many other ways, 2020 was an exceptional year for capital punishment. This is not a good thing. Before 2020, the United States had steadily backed away from the death penalty.

Crime Two TN death row executions scheduled for 2020 Nicholas "Nicky" Todd Sutton will be the first execution of 2020, scheduled for Feb. 20.

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Following Stephen West's execution Thursday night, three more Tennessee death row inmates are scheduled to die in the next year and a half. Lee Hall Jr., Nicky Todd Sutton ...

Five people were exonerated from death row in 2020, bringing the number of people released from death row since 1973 to 172.

Death row inmate says he's facing execution based on lying jailhouse snitch's word James Dailey says he may be executed without physical, eyewitness evidence ...

Twenty-nine people have been condemned to die in Oregon and of those, 27 live on death row at the Oregon State Penitentiary in Salem.

The federal government in 2020 executed more prisoners than all 50 states, according to a death penalty research group.

A 1996 federal law limited death row appeals by undermining the spirit of constitutional protections against improper imprisonment. We need to fix that.

In its waning days, the Trump administration is on track to log the highest number of federal executions of any presidency in more than a century.

Last Meals on Death Row, a Peculiarly American Fascination Researching his book on final-menu fantasies, the critic Jay Rayner came across an unsettling body of work about the choices of the ...

Alfred Bourgeois was executed by the federal government Friday evening at the Federal Correctional Center in Terre Haute, Indiana, according to the Bureau of Prisons.