President Donald Trump campaigned on a promise to deliver a “spectacular” yearlong birthday party to mark 250 years of ...

Missouri is one of two states where a judge can hand down death when juries cannot agree unanimously on a sentence.

Missouri is one of two states where a judge can hand down death when juries cannot agree unanimously on a sentence. Since the ...

Mississippi has executed the longest-serving man on its death row nearly 50 years after he was convicted of murder. Richard ...

Continuing Ohio’s trend of not executing convicted criminals, Governor Mike DeWine on Friday issued reprieves for three men on death row, one of them from Clark County, delaying their scheduled ...

Arkansas death row inmate Latavious Johnson died of unknown causes at the Varner SuperMax prison on Friday afternoon, according to the state’s department of corrections. He was in his 40s.

The Nebraska Supreme Court on Friday rejected a convicted killer's latest attempt to challenge the sentence that landed him on death row. John Lotter's attorney had presented a two-pronged ...

Joseph Prystash died on death row more than two years after Fratta was executed for killing his wife, Farah, in 1994, TDCJ confirms. Editor's note: The above video originally aired in 2023.

PARCHMAN, Miss. (AP) — The longest-serving man on Mississippi’s death row was executed Wednesday, nearly five decades after he kidnapped and killed a bank loan officer’s wife in a violent ...

MCALESTER, Okla. (KFOR) – The state of Oklahoma executed death row inmate John Hanson on Thursday. Officials say Hanson and an accomplice carjacked and kidnapped 77-year-old Mary Bowles in Tulsa ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A South Carolina man sent to death row twice for separate murders was put to death Friday by lethal injection in the state’s sixth execution in nine months. Stephen Stanko, 57 ...