As South Carolina prepares to execute a man by firing squad on Friday, here are the ways each state conducts capital punishment.
After the woman spent 27 years on death row for killing an 80-year-old man, the court found that prosecutors failed to reveal ...
A New Orleans-area group decries the state’s efforts to use nitrogen gas to execute death row inmates because, members say, ...
As of Feb. 6, 2025, there were 174 people on death row in Texas, seven of whom are women, including Melissa Lucio who was convicted in 2008 of beating to death her 2-year-old daughter. In 2022 ...
Glenn Ford taught me that every chance for life matters. It was easy to see why: prosecutors told the court Glenn was innocent 30 years after he was wrongly convicted of murder and sent to Death Row.
Thirty-seven years to the day, the state of Texas is set to execute Wood for the killing of six of those victims, whose ...
A death row inmate in Louisiana scheduled to become the first person in the state to be executed using nitrogen gas has asked ...
The Tennessee Supreme Court set execution dates for four people on death row on Monday. It has been five years since Tennessee has put a person to death and months since the state finalized a new ...
Four people are now set for execution in 2025 after years of Tennessee pausing its execution process for death penalty cases.
The order came just over 48 hours before David Leonard Wood was set to be executed by lethal injection on Thursday.
A bill that got unanimous support and a standing ovation in the Georgia House this week looks to make it easier for intellectually disabled people to avoid the death penalty, bringing the Peach ...
The total estimated cost is $26.4 million for housing inmates on death row, constructing an execution chamber, training staff ...