Tremane Wood's fate is in the hands of Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt who decides whether or not to commute his death sentence ...

Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board votes 3–2 to recommend clemency for Tremane Wood, giving the death row inmate a possible ...

If Christa Gail Pike's execution proceeds as planned next year, she will become the first woman put to death in Tennessee since the state began to formally document capital punishment more than a ...

Convicted triple murderer Byron Black was executed by lethal injection on August 5 at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution ...

Mississippi is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to deny a request to stop the execution of Charles Ray Crawford. Crawford, on death row for over 30 years, was convicted of the 1993 kidnapping, rape, and ...

South Carolina death row inmate Stephen Bryant chooses firing squad execution for Nov. 14, becoming the third this year to select the method.

Ohio hasn’t executed anyone on death row since 2018. Under Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine, who says the state can’t get the drugs it needs for lethal injections, the state has had an unofficial death penalty ...

The Mississippi Supreme Court denied a last-minute emergency petition to stay the execution of death row inmate Charles Ray Crawford. Crawford's attorneys argued his original trial lawyers improperly ...

Dozens of prisoners who were on federal death row but had their sentences commuted under former President Biden will be moved to supermax prisons, Attorney General Pam Bondi announced Thursday. Biden, ...

Maryland is about to become the 18th state to abolish the death penalty. A bill has passed the state Senate and is expected to pass the House of Delegates easily with the governor's ardent support.

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 ...

Eight federal inmates whose death sentences were commuted by former President Joe Biden shortly before he left office have been moved to a notorious federal supermax prison in Colorado. The inmates ...