Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty, is a legal sentence in which a person is put to death by the state as a punishment for the crime they were convicted of. Death row refers to the section of a prison that houses inmates sentenced to death.
Scott Peterson has been moved off death row more than two years after the California Supreme Court overturned his death sentence for killing his pregnant... More
November 4, 2022
Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt grants another temporary reprieve to death row inmate Richard Glossip, pushing scheduled execution back until Feb. 2023. More
November 3, 2022
Tennessee death row inmate Henry Hodges cut off his own penis after slitting his wrists and asking to be put on suicide watch, his attorney... More
October 27, 2022
Scott Peterson was moved off death row over 2 years after CA's Supreme Court overturned his death sentence for killing his pregnant wife and unborn... More
October 24, 2022
Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board rejects request to recommend clemency for death row inmate Richard Fairchild, who killed girlfriend's 3-year-old son. More
October 12, 2022
Divided Supreme Court rejects Black Texas death row inmate Andre Thomas' appeal; he argued he didn't get a fair trial. More
October 11, 2022
Alabama officials call off the execution of Alan Miller, a man convicted in a workplace shooting, due to time concerns and trouble accessing his veins. More
September 23, 2022
Alabama has requested to proceed with the execution of Alan Miller, who says his paperwork selecting nitrogen hypoxia as execution method was lost. More
September 22, 2022
Alabama told a federal judge that it could soon be ready to use a new, untried execution method called nitrogen hypoxia to carry out a... More
September 13, 2022
Alabama death row inmate Toforest Johnson, seeking a new trial for a 1998 conviction, says he did not murder a sheriff's deputy. More
September 9, 2022
A South Carolina judge ruled that the state's newly created execution firing squad, as well as its use of the electric chair, are unconstitutional. More
September 6, 2022
Oklahoma executed a man Thursday for a 1997 killing, despite a recommendation from the state's Pardon and Parole Board that his life be spared. James... More
August 25, 2022
Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt rejected clemency for a man facing execution for the 1997 hammer killing of a Choctaw man, despite a recommendation from the... More
August 24, 2022
A federal appeals court upheld Arkansas' use of the sedative midazolam in its lethal injections. A three-judge panel of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of... More
August 16, 2022
More than 60 Oklahoma lawmakers, including many Republicans who support the death penalty, urged the state attorney general to join their request for a new... More
August 8, 2022
Thirty-seven years later, authorities are still trying to identify the remains of some of their victims. More
August 1, 2022
Alabama’s prison system said Friday that the execution of an Alabama inmate was delayed because of the time it took to establish an intravenous line... More
July 29, 2022
Joe Nathan James Jr. is scheduled to receive a lethal injection at an Alabama prison. James was convicted and sentenced to death in the 1994... More
July 28, 2022
Terryln Hall was 6 years old when her mother was fatally shot by a former boyfriend. Nearly 30 years later, Hall, her sister and uncle... More
July 26, 2022
Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals set execution dates for six death row inmates: James Coddington, Richard Glossip, Benjamin Cole, Richard Fairchild, John Hanson and Scott... More
July 1, 2022
William Reece, who was already sentenced to death for a cold-case killing in Oklahoma, pleaded guilty to murder in the deaths of three girls whose... More
June 29, 2022
An Arizona prisoner convicted in the 1984 killing of an 8-year-old girl is scheduled to be executed Wednesday. More
June 8, 2022
A North Carolina man has been sentenced to death for the 2019 murder of his teenage daughter, according to the local prosecutor's office. More
June 6, 2022
Clarence Dixon, Arizona man convicted of killing a college student in 1978, was put to death after a nearly eight-year hiatus in the state's use... More
May 11, 2022
A judge has ruled that an Arizona prisoner convicted in the 1978 killing of a university student is mentally fit to be put to death... More
May 5, 2022
In Texas, the execution of Melissa Lucio for the death of her 2-year-old daughter Mariah has been delayed. More
April 26, 2022
A Texas appeals court delayed the execution of Melissa Lucio amid growing doubts about whether she fatally beat her 2-year-old daughter. More
April 25, 2022
The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear an appeal from Texas death row inmate Rodney Reed, who claims untested crime-scene evidence will help clear him. More
April 25, 2022
Nearly half of the jurors who sentenced a Texas woman to die for the 2007 death of one of her 14 children have called for... More
April 25, 2022
South Carolina's highest court on Wednesday issued a temporary stay blocking the state from carrying out what was set to be its first-ever firing squad... More
April 20, 2022
