Mississippi death row inmate Charles Ray Crawford petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to stop his execution. The defense and state argued their stances.

This year is expected to see capital punishment carried out more often than any other year since 2009. Experts weigh in on ...

Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Navy veteran, defends his accelerated pace of executions by saying he's bringing justice to victims' ...

Florida on Thursday executed a death row inmate convicted of rape and murder of a convenience store clerk in 1998, a record ...

Wood, 46, is set to be executed Nov. 13 for a fatal stabbing in Oklahoma City in 2002. He denies he was the stabber. He is ...

Gov. Kevin Stitt has the final say. The execution is scheduled for Nov. 13 at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester.

An Oklahoma man who was to be executed by lethal injection for a 2002 murder was granted clemency at the last minute on ...

Stephen Bryant is scheduled for execution on Nov. 14 for the 2004 eight-day murder spree of three people in Sumter County ...

This story is part of a series examining the death penalty in Texas. You can read more about the lives of death row inmates at the Polunsky Unit here and a first-person account from a reporter ...

Veterans represent nearly 40% of the record number of death warrants Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed in 2025. Should ...

Richard Barry Randolph, 63, was executed by lethal injection for the 1988 murder of Minnie Ruth McCollum in the small Florida ...