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 ...

During his 20 years behind bars, Richard Lee Tabler says he's found God and leads a ministry of Death Row inmates. He's ...

More than 130 people allege they were sexually abused as children while in custody at youth detention centers in Illinois.

Wallace "Gator" Bradley says Mark Maxson signed a 2013 contract for help in his quest for freedom. Now Bradley is in court trying to get a share of Maxson's legal settlement stemming from the nearly ...

Demetrius Frazier became the fourth inmate in the US to be put to death by the method as he served his sentence for the 1991 ...

Alabama has carried out the nation’s 4th nitrogen gas execution, putting a man to death for the killing of a woman who was raped and shot during an apartment break-in.

A Texas inmate who strangled and suffocated a pastor inside his own church years ago revealed at the brink of his execution that he had ‘found peace’ and was ‘ready to go home.’ Steven Lawayne Nelson ...

A Texas man convicted of beating and suffocating a Dallas area pastor in his own church during a robbery was facing execution ...

South Carolina put a third inmate to death in four months Friday as it goes through a backlog of prisoners who exhausted ...

(AP Photo/Jeffrey Collins) This undated photo shows Marion Bowman Jr. released by the South Carolina Department of ...

Fifty-six of those have been carried out. There are 119 inmates on death row. “It is time for the state of Ohio to take the pragmatic and economically prudent step to abolish the death penalty ...