Two Florida death row inmates are scheduled to be executed hours apart on Tuesday, which would mark the first time in more than six decades the state puts to death multiple people within a single day,

A new Mississippi law allows the death penalty for sexual battery of a child under 12, but critics warn capital punishment may deter victims.

The Don't Kill for Me" protest and vigil met outside of the Governor’s Mansion for the scheduled execution of Carlos Cuesta-Rodriguez, Thursday, Aug. 13, 2026.

And those countries carry out far more executions than the U.S. Last year, 47 people were executed in America. By comparison, Saudi Arabia executed 356 people and Iran over 1,000. China keeps its numbers entirely secret, but they’re estimated to be in the thousands.

Tennessee and Oklahoma executed inmates within 30 minutes of each other on Thursday, followed by Alabama later in the day, marking the first time since 2010 that U.S. states executed three men by lethal injection in a single day. The Tennessee man was ...

Anthony Darrell Hines is convicted of the 1985 killing of Catherine Jean Jenkins in Kingston Springs, Tennessee. He faces the death penalty on Aug. 13.

Christa Pike, scheduled for a Sept. 30 execution, argues the death penalty is unconstitutional in her case.

A group of Tennessee faith leaders is making a last-minute appeal to Gov. Bill Lee to stop this week's scheduled execution of death row inmate, Darrell Hines, arguing the state's death penalty process remains troubled following a "botched" execution attempt earlier this year.