Stacey Humphreys, 52, will be put to death by lethal injection next Wednesday, but he has one final pig out planned.

As executions remain paused, Ohio lawmakers debate competing bills that would either repeal the death penalty or expand how ...

Forty-four death row inmates across the U.S. have been executed this year, reaching a level not seen in more than a decade.

This story is part of a series examining the death penalty in Texas. You can read more about the lives of death row inmates at the Polunsky Unit here and a first-person account from a reporter who ...

The Supreme Court on Wednesday wrestled with the case of an Alabama man who has been on that state’s death row for more than ...

"There are people whom the (prison) system works for. Wayne is one of those people," his attorney said. Nichols is scheduled ...

Summer Shockley with her father, Lance Shockley during a visit at Potosi Correctional Center, in 2024. Lance Shockley executed on Oct. 14, 2025, for the 2005 murder of a Missouri highway patrolman. Of ...

PHOENIX (AZFamily) —It’s been six months exactly since Arizona executed convicted killer Aaron Gunches. Next month, another violent criminal, Richard Djerf, is set to be put to death. For the first ...

Months after a judge tossed out his 1998 murder conviction, Jimmie Duncan is free on bail. But prosecutors have asked the ...

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Ohio has not carried out an execution since 2018, creating a de facto moratorium under Gov. Mike DeWine. State lawmakers are at an impasse over whether to abolish capital punishment or authorize new ...

Chuck Thompson has been on Texas Death Row for 27 years and is set to be executed in January. Credit: April Towery For Charles Victor Thompson, the one constant in his life has been the almost three ...