A federal judge rejected a Georgia death row inmate's request to be executed by firing squad because he claims that lethal injection could cause him excruciating pain. Michael Wade Nance ...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered lower courts to review the case of the only woman on Oklahoma's death row over concerns ... Justice Clarence Thomas, joined by Justice Neil Gorsuch, wrote ...

A remorseful death row inmate pleaded for forgiveness and mouthed one final message before being put to death in Texas on Thursday, 20 years after he killed his strip club manager and another man.

Ending capital punishment had been a dormant issue in Indiana, but advocates now believe a Republican-led effort to abolish ...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday sided with an Oklahoma woman on death row who argued that extensive ... Justices Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch dissented from the other justices, who appeared ...

But for Cooper’s action, 2024 would have been the first year since 2016 in which no state granted clemency to any inmate on death row. In place after place, clemency boards and governors turned ...

Before that, the law was broadly applied by DOC and former Gov. Eric Holcomb’s office to shield details about how the state ...

Now 20 years later, those who know him say he's a deeply faithful man who has become so gentle, he recently hand-raised a baby lizard in his cell on Texas Death Row. "The man I was 20 years ago is ...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday revived a challenge by a death row inmate in Oklahoma who claims ... Conservative Justices Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch dissented. “The state invited the jury ...

Thomas was previously charged with stalking Chavez in August and September 2023, and documents stated Chavez had a reasonable fear of death. The suspect had been stalking the victim for months ...

Meanwhile, Sims on Monday asked 22nd District Judge Alan Zaunbrecher to set an execution date for Jessie Hoffman, who was sent to death row for the 1996 killing of Mary “Molly” Elliot ...

A Florida man convicted of killing a husband and wife at a remote farm in an attack witnessed by the couple’s toddler was put to death Thursday in the state’s first execution of the year.