Gov. Ron DeSantis is on pace to set a record for the number of executions in one year, having already presided over the ...

Shortly after taking office in 2019, Gov. Gavin Newsom issued a moratorium on executions and ordered death row dismantled.

Sometime on May 8, two weeks before his scheduled execution, Oscar Smith was moved away from the other men on death row and ...

Oscar Franklin Smith is set to be executed by lethal injection for the 1989 murder of his estranged wife, 35-year-old Judith ...

On the eve of the execution, the inmate is transferred from their cell on Death Row to the execution site, commonly referred ...

Oscar Franklin Smith was moved to death watch, a two-day period of 24-hour observation, before his planned execution.

Oscar Franklin Smith, 75, is scheduled to be the first to die by Tennessee’s new lethal injection protocol on May 22.

James Edward Smith was sentenced to death by lethal injection in June 1990 following the murder of life insurance worker ...

On death row, he said he clings to education because ... makes them better citizens of the cell block, and makes them better neighbors if they do get released.” The sentencing project is housed ...

On death row, he built a life amid the dank cells of concrete and iron stacked five stories high. He soaked up books on philosophy and spirituality, finding solace in the poem "Invictus." ...