Bryan Kohberger has agreed to plead guilty to murdering four University of Idaho students as part of a deal with prosecutors ...

The longest-serving man on Mississippi’s death row was executed Wednesday, nearly five decades after he kidnapped and killed ...

Vietnam veteran Richard Gerald Jordan is set to be executed in Mississippi nearly 50 years after being sentenced to death ...

Nearly five decades after being convicted of murder, a Mississippi man got executed. Can that happen in NJ, PA?

The Associated Press reported that Richard Gerald Jordan is scheduled to receive a lethal injection at the Mississippi State ...

California's corrections department (such as FCI San Pedro pictured in May 2020) holds the nation's largest death row block, with 574 people, among more than 94,000 prisoners statewide.

At least 26 people were sentenced to die in 2024, an increase of at least five people from the previous year, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.

As of June 19, 2025, there were 169 people on death row in Texas. Four of them are women, including Melissa Lucio, who was convicted in 2008 of beating her 2-year-old daughter to death.