James Dennis Ford, a convicted killer on death row since 1999, did not share any final words before he was executed by lethal injection in Florida on Thursday. Why It Matters The death penalty is a ...

Trumbull County Prosecutor Dennis Watkins penned two separate letters for U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi and Ohio Attorney ...

Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond announced an agreement to transfer a convicted murderer from a federal prison in Louisiana to Oklahoma to carry out his execution.

United States Attorney General Pam Bondi granted Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond's request for a death row inmate ...

Richard Lee Tabler, 46, would be the second inmate executed in Texas in a little over a week, with two more scheduled by the ...

A Tennessee death row prisoner has declared a hunger strike, saying he is protesting issues with medical care, the quality of ...

According to the Death Penalty Information Center, 25 people were executed in the United States in 2024. The number of death sentences imposed was 26. There are 2,092 people on death row in the United ...

TALLAHASSEE — The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected an appeal by Florida Death Row inmate James Ford, setting the ...

Arizona has set an execution date for a convicted killer on death row, marking the state's return to the death penalty after ...

A DeSoto Parish man who’s been on death row for more than three decades could be the first person put to death after a ...

A Kentucky lawmaker is hoping his quest to limit the pardon powers of governors in his state has received a jolt of momentum from public attention over the flurry of pardons and commuted sentences ...

Two men in Texas are sentenced to death for murdering their children — for one of them, it is already too late. For the other ...