What's behind this year's spike in death row executions after years of decline

Until this year, death penalty executions had been dwindling across the nation. The sudden spike now is unusual, experts say.Forty-four people on death row have been executed so far this year, and ...

Death row inmate becomes 3rd in SC executed by firing squad

This article has been updated with the execution. COLUMBIA — A Sumter County man who killed three during a crime spree 21 ...

South Carolina executes killer who left bloody message, marking third firing-squad execution this year

Stephen Bryant, 44, was executed for killing a man in his home and writing "catch me if u can" on the wall with the victim's ...

Oklahoma death row inmate granted clemency on the morning of his scheduled execution

Tremane Wood was scheduled to be executed in Oklahoma on Thursday. Gov. Kevin Sitt commuted his death sentence to life ...
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Missouri executes state's first death-row inmate of 2025

Oct. 14 (UPI) --Missouri on Tuesday executed its first death-row inmate of this year, killing Lance Shockley for the 2005 murder of a state highway patrol officer. Shockley, 48, died by lethal ...
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Who is on death row in Ohio? See the database

Editor's note: This database contains descriptions of violent crimes. There are 113 people sitting on Ohio's death row. Some were sentenced to death decades ago, for murders committed in the 1980s and ...

South Carolina court rejects final death row appeal focused on brain damage from mother’s drinking

South Carolina's highest court has refused to stop Friday's execution of a man who killed three people over five days and ...
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Last words said by convicts on death row

Here are the four Republicans who helped force a vote on releasing Epstein files 'My whole life was a lie': Former vegan chef ...