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.

A Houston-area man convicted of killing his wife died this week after more than three decades on death row, marking the ...

As of January 1, 2025, there were 2,092 inmates on death row in the United States, including 46 women. In 2024, the number of new death sentences increased to 26, up from 2023.

Byron Black, a 69-year-old man on Tennessee's death row, has formally petitioned Governor Bill Lee to commute his death ...

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.

So, what did some of America's most heinous and notorious serial killers request for their last meals before they were ...

Public attention to the death penalty often focuses on the method of execution and questions about innocence and guilt. But the use of capital punishment has waned in the United States since the ...

“Today, I am commuting the sentences of 37 of the 40 individuals on federal death row to life sentences without the possibility of parole,” Biden announced in a statement released Monday.

Gregory Hunt, 65, was pronounced dead at 6:26 p.m. Central Time (2323 GMT) at the Alabama state prison in Atmore. He was executed by nitrogen hypoxia, which involves pumping nitrogen gas into a ...

A total of 19 inmates in nine states have been executed in the U.S. this year, according to the non-profit Death Penalty Information Center.

Jordan was the state's longest-serving and oldest death row inmate when executed. This comes after the United States Supreme Court denied an application for stay of execution earlier today. Orders ...