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Victims' families and others affected by crimes that resulted in federal death row convictions shared a range of emotions after…
Biden's historic commutation of death row inmates will not include prisoners who committed terrorism and hate-motivated murders.
Marcellus Williams, 55, is scheduled to be executed on Sept. 24 for the 1998 stabbing death of Lisha Gayle in…
The Missouri Attorney General's Office opposes the new agreement and will appeal to push for the execution of Marcellus Williams.
Like other reliably red states that have stalled executions, Louisiana lawmakers want to expand its methods to use the death…
A man sentenced to death for a 1998 murder is now free, two years after the Oregon Court of Appeals reversed the…
Juveniles held in a former death row building at a Louisiana prison for adults are suffering through dangerous heat and…
For decades, Missouri executions played out in similar fashion: An inmate was strapped to a gurney in a drab room,…
A group of death row inmates filed a federal lawsuit Thursday against the Texas prison system over its policy of…
Texas plans to use expired and unsafe drugs to carry out executions early this year in violation of state law,…
According to an independent review released Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2022, Tennessee has not complied with its own lethal injection protocol…
Kevin Johnson, who died by lethal injection, was convicted in the murder of an officer he blamed for the death…
Khorry Ramey's father, Kevin Johnson, is set to be executed Tuesday for killing Kirkwood, Missouri, Police Officer William McEntee in 2005.
A divided Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected an appeal from a Black Texas death row inmate who argued he didn't…
A South Carolina inmate who killed four people is off death row after a federal appeals court ruled the judge…
South Carolina’s corrections agency said last month that it finished developing protocols for firing squad executions.
Richard Bernard Moore has been on death row for over 20 years after he was convicted of killing a convenience…
South Carolina's death chamber has capacity to carry out firing-squad executions, making it one of four states to authorize the…
Oklahoma once had one of the nation’s busiest death chambers, but a moratorium on capital punishment has been in place…
A jury in a North Carolina federal civil rights case has awarded $75 million to two Black, intellectually disabled half…