Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty, is a legal sentence in which a person is put to death by the state as a punishment for the crime they were convicted of. Death row refers to the section of a prison that houses inmates sentenced to death.
Nevada's first execution in nearly 16 years is on hold again after the state's lawyers told a federal judge on Monday they couldn't possibly satisfy... More
February 14, 2022
A convicted killer who fatally shot a man nearly 40 years ago has been removed from Ohio's death row under a new law that prohibits... More
February 14, 2022
The goal is to turn the section at San Quentin State Prison into a "positive, healing environment.” California Gov. Gavin Newsom said Monday More
February 1, 2022
By JOHN HANNA Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas' highest court wrestled Monday with whether a man invoked his right to remain silent before More
January 31, 2022
Oklahoma executed a man Thursday for the brutal slayings of two hotel workers during a robbery in 2001. Donald Grant, 46, received a lethal injection... More
January 27, 2022
Prison officials want to use a never-before-tried combination of three or four drugs to execute Zane Michael Floyd by lethal injection. More
January 27, 2022
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A federal appeals court on Wednesday blocked the state from executing an inmate convicted of killing a driver who gave him... More
January 26, 2022
A federal appeals court rejected a request from two Oklahoma death row inmates to temporarily halt their upcoming lethal injections. More
January 25, 2022
The Oklahoma Department of Corrections does not currently have execution protocols in place for any method other than lethal injection. More
January 11, 2022
A state appeals court on Wednesday rejected the appeal of an Oklahoma death row inmate who was sentenced to die for killing a 16-year-old girl... More
December 22, 2021
Family members of a slain woman and her daughter sat through a gruesome crime scene video that played in a Tennessee courtroom Monday — images... More
December 13, 2021
Authorities have uncovered the remains of a Mississippi woman following a tip from an inmate who revealed the location of her body prior to his... More
December 13, 2021
By KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Attorney General Herbert Slatery announced Friday he wouldn't appeal the resentencing of a More
December 10, 2021
Nearly 17 years after being sentenced to die Scott Peterson resentenced to life without parole in emotional hearing - family of slain pregnant wife Laci... More
December 8, 2021
David Neal Cox - who was executed in Mississippi last month for killing his estranged wife - admitted to another killing and his confession could... More
December 6, 2021
By SEAN MURPHY The Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt denied clemency on Friday for a death row inmate sentenced to... More
December 3, 2021
The Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board voted 4-1 on Wednesday to reject clemency for a man convicted and sentenced to die for his role in... More
December 1, 2021
Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt stopped the execution of death row inmate Julius Jones on Thursday, commuting his death sentence. More
November 18, 2021
Julius Jones, 41, who has maintained his innocence for more than two decades, is scheduled to receive a lethal injection Thursday. More
November 18, 2021
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press NEW ALBANY, Miss. (AP) — If all goes as scheduled, 23-year-old Lindsey Kirk will be at a Mississippi prison... More
November 16, 2021
Oklahoma Pardon Parole Board recommended Gov. Kevin Stitt spare the life of death row inmate Julius Jones whose conviction for 1999 killing of a businessman... More
November 1, 2021
By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press McALESTER, Okla. (AP) — Oklahoma administered the death penalty Thursday on a man who convulsed and vomited as he was More
October 29, 2021
Oklahoma man John Marion Grant stabbed prison cafeteria worker to death scheduled to receive lethal injection in state's first attempt since series of flawed executions. More
October 28, 2021
A federal appeals court granted stays of execution on Wednesday for two Oklahoma inmates who were scheduled to receive lethal injections in the coming weeks. More
October 27, 2021
Supreme Court rejected plea from South Carolina to reimpose death penalty on South Carolina inmate whose death sentence stood for two decades until federal appeals... More
October 22, 2021
The appeals of two Oklahoma death row inmates convicted of murder were rejected Thursday by the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals. More
October 7, 2021
Jesse Johnson was accused of stabbing Harriet Thompson, a 28-year-old Black nurse’s aide, to death in her Salem home in 1998. More
October 7, 2021
Missouri Gov. Mike Parson declined to grant clemency to death row inmate Ernest Johnson despite requests for mercy from the pope two federal lawmakers and... More
October 4, 2021
A Texas inmate faces execution Tuesday evening for fatally stabbing two brothers during a robbery in their home more than 30 years ago. More
September 28, 2021
Scott Peterson who spent more than 15 years on Death Row in the 2002 murders of his pregnant wife and unborn son will be sentenced... More
September 23, 2021
