The 2025 Academy Awards are just around the corner, and a documentary on a Texas death row prisoner is receiving recognition. Called "I Am Ready, Warden," the Oscar-nominated film deals with ...

A Florida man convicted of killing a husband and wife at a remote farm in an attack witnessed by the couple’s toddler was put to death Thursday in the state’s first execution of the year.

Robert Roberson, an inmate on death row in Texas, could be the first in the nation executed for a "shaken baby syndrome" death.

Slamming the “utter lackadaisical” investigation by the Uttar Pradesh Police, the Supreme Court has acquitted a man sentenced to death for the 2012 murder of his brother, sister-in-law, and their four ...

A South Carolina death row inmate who is the next person scheduled to be put to death by the state is again requesting that his execution be postponed because his lawyers have not received the ...

A remorseful death row inmate pleaded for forgiveness and mouthed one final message before being put to death in Texas on Thursday, 20 years after he killed his strip club manager and another man.

As of Feb. 6, 2025, there were 174 people on death row in Texas, seven of whom are women, including Melissa Lucio who was convicted in 2008 of beating to death her 2-year-old daughter. In 2022 ...

Steven Nelson has spent more than a dozen years on Death Row in Texas and is to be executed ... "I really don't want her to see that, me getting pumped full of drugs and being overdosed with ...

But for Cooper’s action, 2024 would have been the first year since 2016 in which no state granted clemency to any inmate on death row. In place after place, clemency boards and governors turned ...

The president commuted the death sentences of almost all of the men on federal death row, but left out three of the most well-known, including Roof. Joe Biden believes the death penalty "must stop ...