Republican Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine has extended the state's unofficial death penalty moratorium once again with the postponements of three more executions scheduled for this year ...
A Tennessee death row prisoner who murdered a teen couple from Chickamauga, Georgia has declared a hunger strike, saying he ...
The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Feb. 24 in the case of a man on Texas death row who has long tried to obtain postconviction DNA testing on evidence that he says would exonerate him. Rube ...
No capital punishment has been approved by the Supreme Court for a second year in a row in India. The last hangings in India ...
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 ...
Every week, behind a half dozen security doors that lead to Unit 2—Tennessee’s death row—Kevin Burns holds a worship service. He leads Communion, prayer, liturgy, and a sermon with men who share his ...
Sisters from a convent outside Waco have repeatedly visited the prisoners—and even made them affiliates of their order. The ...
Green Beret Sgt. Tommy Lazzaro never should have died like this, in an apparent hunting accident outside Eglin: Now, his ...
A convicted murderer and rapist was executed by nitrogen gas on Thursday — 14 years after he was transferred to Alabama while ...
He sought justice from injustice. He sought life for those on Death Row. He urged others to, “do unto others as you would ...
A man on Pennsylvania’s death row was found deceased in their cell on Tuesday morning. The Pennsylvania Department of Corrections says Tam Le, 53, was found unresponsive at ...