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 ...

Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry announced the state will resume executions after a 15-year hiatus, potentially using the experimental method nitrogen hypoxia.

Gov. Jeff Landry announced Monday that the state had developed a protocol for executing people with nitrogen gas, allowing it ...

The executions of Steven Nelson in Texas and Demetrius Frazier in Alabama come in the context of the Trump administration’s efforts to bolster the federal death penalty and to encourage the 27 states ...

This is not in any way lessening due process for those who are convicted and are facing the death penalty,” said Rep. Bruce ...

Steven Lawayne Nelson was condemned for the 2011 killing of the Rev. Clint Dobson at a Baptist church in Arlington. Dobson’s ...

Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond has praised the state’s pardon and parole board for denying clemency to a death row inmate.

The Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board voted against recommending clemency for death row inmate Wendell Grissom.

The Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board denied clemency for Wendell Arden Grissom, clearing the way for his March 20, 2025 ...

A death penalty date for Wendell Grissom will stand after the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board denied him clemency on ...