Demetrius Frazier became the fourth inmate in the US to be put to death by the method as he served his sentence for the 1991 ...

A man convicted of murdering a woman after breaking into her apartment is set to be executed Thursday evening in Alabama in ...

An Oklahoma board rejected clemency on Wednesday for a man sentenced to die for fatally shooting a woman during a 2005 ...

Death row populations in the United States have declined to historic lows. The Death Penalty Policy Project reviewed 50 years of data and found that U.S. death rows shrank more last year than any ...

People convicted of homicides represented about 56% of the population serving life without parole as of 2024, data shows. But ...

Rejon Taylor told Newsweek that he had received notice he would be transferred to ADX Florence, a "supermax" facility known for its harsh conditions.

Sometimes referred to as the “Alcatraz of the Rockies,” the officially named U.S. Penitentiary Florence Administrative ...

Iouri Mikhel filed a petition seeking to block his sentence from being commuted from death to life imprisonment without ...

Now back in office, President Trump is seeking to restart executions at the high-security prison in Terre Haute, Indiana, where all federal death sentences are carried out.

A file photo shows the lethal-injection chamber at the federal correction facility in Terre Haute, Ind ... President Donald Trump signed an executive order on the federal death penalty Jan. 20, among ...

Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio expressed grave concern over the wave of new executive orders on immigration, the environment ...

Experts argue that the executive order ending naturalization for the children of undocumented immigrants violates the 14th ...