Tennessee judge rules that video detailing the treatment of death row inmate Henry Hodges, who cut off his penis while on suicide watch, be made... More
January 18, 2023
South Carolina's highest court will hear arguments on whether a newly organized firing squad or the old electric chair are legal ways to execute inmates. More
January 5, 2023
Gabriel Hall, 29, is awaiting execution by lethal injection after being convicted of murdering a Texas A&M professor. More
December 30, 2022
Oklahoma appeals court denies death row inmate Richard Glossip's request for a hearing to prove his innocence in the beating death of Glossip's boss. More
November 10, 2022
Attorneys for Tennessee death row inmate Byron Black told a state appeals court he should not be executed because he is intellectually disabled. More
November 8, 2022
Scott Peterson has been moved off death row more than two years after the California Supreme Court overturned his death sentence for killing his pregnant... More
November 4, 2022
Tennessee death row inmate Henry Hodges cut off his own penis after slitting his wrists and asking to be put on suicide watch, his attorney... More
October 27, 2022
Scott Peterson was moved off death row over 2 years after CA's Supreme Court overturned his death sentence for killing his pregnant wife and unborn... More
October 24, 2022
Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board rejects request to recommend clemency for death row inmate Richard Fairchild, who killed girlfriend's 3-year-old son. More
October 12, 2022
Divided Supreme Court rejects Black Texas death row inmate Andre Thomas' appeal; he argued he didn't get a fair trial. More
October 11, 2022
Alabama death row inmate Toforest Johnson, seeking a new trial for a 1998 conviction, says he did not murder a sheriff's deputy. More
September 9, 2022
Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt rejected clemency for a man facing execution for the 1997 hammer killing of a Choctaw man, despite a recommendation from the... More
August 24, 2022
More than 60 Oklahoma lawmakers, including many Republicans who support the death penalty, urged the state attorney general to join their request for a new... More
August 8, 2022
Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals set execution dates for six death row inmates: James Coddington, Richard Glossip, Benjamin Cole, Richard Fairchild, John Hanson and Scott... More
July 1, 2022
William Reece, who was already sentenced to death for a cold-case killing in Oklahoma, pleaded guilty to murder in the deaths of three girls whose... More
June 29, 2022
Tennessee death row inmate Tyrone Chalmers can pursue arguments that he is intellectually disabled and should not be executed under state law. More
June 9, 2022
In Texas, the execution of Melissa Lucio for the death of her 2-year-old daughter Mariah has been delayed. More
April 26, 2022
The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear an appeal from Texas death row inmate Rodney Reed, who claims untested crime-scene evidence will help clear him. More
April 25, 2022
Texas' oldest death row inmate was executed Thursday. Carl Wayne Buntion, 78, was condemned for the June 1990 fatal shooting of Houston police officer James... More
April 21, 2022
Lawyers for two men on South Carolina's death row have asked the state's Supreme Court to hold off on setting execution dates while they challenge... More
March 23, 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
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
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
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 appeals of two Oklahoma death row inmates convicted of murder were rejected Thursday by the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals. 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
By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — As many as 10 death row inmates in Oklahoma, more than one-fifth of the state’s prisoners... More
March 1, 2021
By JACQUES BILLEAUD Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Four death row prisoners have tested positive for the coronavirus and another five are showing More
April 23, 2020
