Louisiana is restarting death penalty executions next week for the first time in 15 years, using nitrogen gas to execute Jessie Hoffman. Here's a look at who else is on death row in the state.

The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has blocked the execution of convicted El Paso 'Desert Killer' David Leonard Wood, amid lack of DNA evidence.

Through March 20, three men are set to be executed in Arizona, Florida and Oklahoma. The other states with scheduled ...

I also reject all attempts to manipulate the system by activist lawyers for death row inmates who make unfounded claims of contrived injustices. “However, in the case of Ludie Mae Tucker’s ...

Montgomery, Ala. – Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey on Friday commuted the death sentence of Robin “Rocky” Myers to life in prison after noting questions about his case. Ivey said Myers, who was facing ...

Former Texas death row inmate John Henry Ramirez’s story is told in the documentary short, “I Am Ready, Warden,” which is up for an Academy Award this Sunday. The Houston attorney who won ...

After nearly three decades maintaining his innocence on Oklahoma’s death row, Richard Glossip this week now has the opportunity to win his freedom after the US Supreme Court ordered he receive a ...

[From: Society’s Final Solution: A History and Discussion of the Death Penalty, Laura E. Randa, ed., University Press of America, Inc., 1997. Reprinted with ...

Mahdi El Tahir, 40, was a member of security staff at a Cardiff University library and had known his victim Steven Mahoney for five years. On November 1, 2023, both of them were working a night ...

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Cantu seeks unspecified damages, arguing that the mix-up has damaged his reputation. Kim Kardashian is facing a slander lawsuit from a New York resident whose photo was mistakenly used in her ...