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.

Iouri Mikhel was sentenced to death in 2007 after being convicted of a kidnapping-for-ransom scheme in California where he ...

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 ...

A federal judge has denied a motion by a former Southwest Missouri man who seeks to overturn the commutation of his death sentence by then-President Joe Biden. Shannon Wayne Agofsky, 53, formerly of ...

The Wabash Valley Community Foundation has landed a $6.5 million grant toward an $11.3 million modernization and renovation ...

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.