The state has never used that method to execute a prisoner. The last time an inmate was killed by a firing squad was in 2010 ...

A federal jury found Donald “Lil’ Don” Lee and Torance “Blackie” Benson guilty of a racketeering conspiracy in November 2022 ...

Lawyers are sparring over a COVID-19-related agreement that has shielded some people on Georgia's death row from execution.

Elections have consequences, so the slogan goes. One of those consequences was on full display Feb. 5, in the minutes after ...

A new Colorado bill provides that those who "knowingly" use the wrong "gender identity" on a person's death certificate could ...

Congolese authorities announced that over 170 prisoners on death row over armed robberies would be executed. A recent video ...

Larry Wayne Whitehead, 62, was convicted in 1996 for the death of Albertville police officer and detective Andrew Whitten.

The report came about a month after the UN human rights chief said Iran had executed 901 prisoners in 2024. Volker Turk said ...

Twenty-three states have abolished the death penalty. California should join them in ending state-sponsored executions.

The move could affect plans to execute two prisoners in March. "This case has always been about Louisiana’s execution ...

Tennessee's attorney general has filed notice seeking execution dates for five men on death row. It's another sign the state ...