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.

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 ...

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 ...

Oklahoma prosecutors will retry former death row inmate Richard Glossip for murder but won’t pursue the death penalty, Attorney General Gentner Drummond said Monday.

Over the next four days, four inmates in four states are scheduled to be put to death – a cluster that, while not abnormal – comes amid a national uptick in executions as President Donald ...

Prison officials found an improvised weapon at the scene after 30 inmates allegedly joined the assault on a convicted murderer.

Arkansas death row inmate Latavious Johnson died of unknown causes at the Varner SuperMax prison on Friday afternoon, according to the state’s department of corrections. He was in his 40s.

Federal prosecutors won’t seek the death penalty for the son of notorious Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman if he’s convicted of multiple charges in Chicago.

In March of this year, convicted killer Brad Sigmon became the first death row inmate to be executed via a gory method that had previously been banned in the United States for over 15 years. It was ...

Prior to his execution on 20 June 1990, convicted killer James Edward Smith was asked his final meal request. The 37-year-old's eerie response was deemed so unnerving, however, that in a death row ...