The upcoming execution of Oscar Franklin Smith has caused a deeper look into the history and methods of execution and current ways Death Row offenders are managed.

Fifteen men have died by court-ordered execution so far this year in the U.S., and 12 other people are scheduled to be put to ...

The bill would require the Texas Department of Criminal Justice to install air conditioning at each of its facilities by the ...

Stephen Stanko is scheduled for death on June 13 and must decide by May 30 whether to die by lethal injection, firing squad, ...

The Supreme Court of South Carolina has affirmed an appeal in the death sentence of an Horry County death row inmate.In 2005, ...

After exhausting his appeals, Stephen Stanko, convicted of two murders in Horry County, will have to choose his method of ...

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Glen Rogers shouted out President Trump as he lay strapped to an execution gurney seconds before Florida executed him by lethal injection.

This image provided by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Texas death row inmate Moises Sandoval Mendoza. HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A Texas man convicted of fatally strangling and stabbing ...

Clarence Jordan’s mental and physical health have deteriorated while he’s been locked in a prison cell for almost 50 years, ...

A Texas death row inmate's last words before his execution ... known as the "Desert Killer," who is incarcerated at the Allan B. Polunksy Unit in Livingston, Texas, is scheduled to be executed ...

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A Texas man convicted of fatally ... Reading from a statement, she said of Mendoza: “He’s been on death row 20 years. That ended today. He was put to sleep.