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 ...

Belle da Costa Greene, the first director of the Morgan Library, was a Black woman who passed as white in the early 20th ...

Keri Blakinger’s ’14 journalistic work covering death row inmates has earned her an Oscar nomination as a producer for the documentary I Am Ready, Warden.

Despite no support for claims that it is a more humane method of execution, Arkansas is looking at using nitrogen gas to kill inmates.

A man — who was convicted in Texas of a double homicide and confessed to killing two others — sought penance from the ...

Since Texas reinstated capital punishment and adopted lethal injection as its means of execution in 1977, the state has put ...

James D. Ford, who was convicted of killing a young married couple on a remote fishing trip, is scheduled to be executed Thursday, Feb. 13, 2025.

According to the Death Penalty Information Center, 25 people were executed in the United States in 2024. The number of death sentences imposed was 26. There are 2,092 people on death row in the United ...

Sisters from a convent outside Waco have repeatedly visited the prisoners—and even made them affiliates of their order. The ...

OKLAHOMA CITY — An Oklahoma board rejected clemency on Wednesday for a man sentenced to die for fatally shooting a woman during a ... in 2021, to death row inmate Julius Jones, commuting his ...

Oklahoma Board Denies Clemency for Man on Death Row, Clears Path for March Execution ... for a man sentenced to die for fatally shooting a woman during a 2005 home-invasion robbery, clearing ...