Texas is scheduled to execute a man convicted of killing two men as part of a 2004 dispute with his boss at a strip club, and ...

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 will seek to resume carrying out death sentences in the coming months after a 15-year pause, this time using ...

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 ...

This is not in any way lessening due process for those who are convicted and are facing the death penalty,” said Rep. Bruce Skaug, R-Nampa, the bill’s lead sponsor.

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.

Steven Lawayne Nelson was executed Wednesday for killing an Arlington pastor, a crime he maintained he did not commit, though ...

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