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With Michael Bell's execution in Florida on Tuesday, the U.S. has now had more executions in any given year since 2015, when there were 28.
Michael Bell, scheduled for execution July 15, is one of dozens of death row inmates who were students at Florida's infamously abusive Dozier school.
As a death row inmate fights to be spared from execution, the victims' family is vowing to make their voices heard.
As the state prepares to execute Jacksonville killer Michael Bell, here's a look at five of the most reprehensible cases this ...
Cultlike Zizian group member charged in border agent’s death seeks delay in death penalty decision Defense attorneys asked the court to give her until at least Jan. 30, 2026, to submit ...
A condemned inmate makes a phone call from his cell on San Quentin’s death row in March 2024. [Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times/TNS] ...
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." ...
A Harrisburg man potentially facing the death penalty just fired his public defender and told a judge he would represent himself in court.
The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 for Ruben Gutierrez, a Texas death row inmate, granting a path for DNA testing that could impact his execution eligibility.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled for a Texas death row inmate who is seeking DNA testing to show he should be ineligible for execution.
PARCHMAN, Miss. (AP) — The longest-serving man on Mississippi’s death row was executed Wednesday, nearly five decades after he kidnapped and killed a bank loan officer’s wife in a violent ...
Richard Gerald Jordan, the longest-serving man on Mississippi's death row was executed Wednesday, nearly five decades after he kidnapped and killed a bank loan officer's wife in a violent ransom ...