Death Row

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 death sentence. 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 Coddington, 50, received a lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester and was pronounced dead at 10:16 a.m. 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 state’s Pardon and Parole Board that his life be spared. James Coddington was convicted and sentenced to die for the beating death of Albert Hale. Prosecutors say Coddington became enraged when Hale refused to give him money to buy cocaine. 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 Appeals affirmed a lower court judge's ruling upholding the state's execution process. U.S. District Judge Kristine Baker in 2020 ruled that the state's use of midazolam in injections is constitutional and dismissed claims that less painful methods of execution are available. 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 evidentiary hearing in the case of death row inmate Richard Glossip. 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 to the inmate. 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 shooting death of Faith Hall. Hall's daughters said they would rather James serve life in prison. 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 oppose Alabama’s plan to execute killer Joe Nathan James Jr. 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 Eizember. 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 disappearances in Texas also went unsolved for decades. 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 of the death penalty brought on by a nearly two-hour execution that critics say was botched. 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 next week. 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 her upcoming execution to be halted and for her to get a new trial. 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 execution. More

April 20, 2022

Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is again trying to avoid execution. More

April 8, 2022

South Carolina has scheduled its first execution after corrections officials finished updating the death chamber to prepare for executions by firing squad. More

April 8, 2022

A group of bipartisan Texas lawmakers planned on Wednesday to visit death row inmate Melissa Lucio, whose execution they are trying to stop amid doubts about whether she fatally beat her 2-year-old daughter. More

April 6, 2022

Lawyers for two men on South Carolina's death row have asked the state's Supreme Court to hold off on setting execution dates while they challenge a new law allowing executions by firing squad. More

March 23, 2022

Mississippi judge to hold hearing to determine if death row inmate Blayde Nathaniel Grayson truly wants to request an execution date and is mentally competent to waive appeals. More

March 7, 2022