Death Row

The Supreme Court has reinstated the death sentence for convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. More

March 4, 2022

Nevada's first execution in nearly 16 years is on hold again after the state's lawyers told a federal judge on Monday they couldn't possibly satisfy the legal requirements necessary to put Zane Michael Floyd to death before April. More

February 14, 2022

A convicted killer who fatally shot a man nearly 40 years ago has been removed from Ohio's death row under a new law that prohibits the execution of people who had severe mental illness at the time of their crime. More

February 14, 2022

U.S. Attorney Rachael Rollins said Monday that, if instructed by Attorney General Merrick Garland, she would attempt to reinstate the death penalty against convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. More

February 7, 2022

The goal is to turn the section at San Quentin State Prison into a "positive, healing environment.” California Gov. Gavin Newsom said Monday More

February 1, 2022

By JOHN HANNA Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas’ highest court wrestled Monday with whether a man invoked his right to remain silent before making statements that were key to him being convicted of capital murder in the fatal shootings of three adults and a toddler. Kyle Trevor Flack is asking the state Supreme […] More

January 31, 2022

Oklahoma executed a man Thursday for the brutal slayings of two hotel workers during a robbery in 2001. Donald Grant, 46, received a lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester and was declared dead at 10:16 a.m. More

January 27, 2022

Prison officials want to use a never-before-tried combination of three or four drugs to execute Zane Michael Floyd by lethal injection. More

January 27, 2022

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A federal appeals court on Wednesday blocked the state from executing an inmate convicted of killing a driver who gave him a ride, upholding a lower court ruling that he can’t be put to death unless the state uses an untested, new method. A three-judge panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit […] More

January 26, 2022

A federal appeals court rejected a request from two Oklahoma death row inmates to temporarily halt their upcoming lethal injections. More

January 25, 2022

The Oklahoma Department of Corrections does not currently have execution protocols in place for any method other than lethal injection. More

January 11, 2022

In addition to the stimulus payment, convicted Boston Marathon bomber DzhokharTsarnaev has received money from dozens of sources during his incarceration. More

January 6, 2022

A state appeals court on Wednesday rejected the appeal of an Oklahoma death row inmate who was sentenced to die for killing a 16-year-old girl in 2012. The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals denied Miles Bench's motion for an evidentiary hearing and to stay proceedings in his death penalty appeal. More

December 22, 2021

Family members of a slain woman and her daughter sat through a gruesome crime scene video that played in a Tennessee courtroom Monday — images of two blood-soaked bodies lying stabbed to death in awkward positions on the floor of their apartment, a knife resting next to the little girl's foot. More

December 13, 2021

Authorities have uncovered the remains of a Mississippi woman following a tip from an inmate who revealed the location of her body prior to his execution on other crimes last month. More

December 13, 2021

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Attorney General Herbert Slatery announced Friday he wouldn’t appeal the resentencing of a Tennessee death row inmate to life in prison after initially resisting the move just two years prior. Last month, Judge Monte Watkins vacated the conviction of Abu-Ali Abdur’Rahman (ah-BOO’-ah-LEE’) (AHB’-dur-RAK’-mahn) after finding his […] More

December 10, 2021

Nearly 17 years after being sentenced to die Scott Peterson resentenced to life without parole in emotional hearing - family of slain pregnant wife Laci called him out for the 2002 killing. More

December 8, 2021

David Neal Cox - who was executed in Mississippi last month for killing his estranged wife - admitted to another killing and his confession could resolve a 2007 cold case. More

December 6, 2021

By SEAN MURPHY The Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt denied clemency on Friday for a death row inmate sentenced to die for the 1985 shooting death of a Putnam City schoolteacher. The Republican governor’s decision clears the way for Bigler Stouffer II, 79, to receive a lethal injection at 10 […] More

December 3, 2021

The Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board voted 4-1 on Wednesday to reject clemency for a man convicted and sentenced to die for his role in a quadruple slaying in Oklahoma City in 2005. More

December 1, 2021

Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt stopped the execution of death row inmate Julius Jones on Thursday, commuting his death sentence. More

November 18, 2021

Julius Jones, 41, who has maintained his innocence for more than two decades, is scheduled to receive a lethal injection Thursday. More

November 18, 2021

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press NEW ALBANY, Miss. (AP) — If all goes as scheduled, 23-year-old Lindsey Kirk will be at a Mississippi prison this week to watch the execution of the stepfather who terrorized her family, sexually assaulted her when she was a child and killed her mother. David Neal Cox is scheduled […] More

November 16, 2021

Oklahoma Pardon Parole Board recommended Gov. Kevin Stitt spare the life of death row inmate Julius Jones whose conviction for 1999 killing of a businessman has drawn national attention. More

November 1, 2021

Oklahoma man John Marion Grant stabbed prison cafeteria worker to death scheduled to receive lethal injection in state's first attempt since series of flawed executions. More

October 28, 2021

A federal appeals court granted stays of execution on Wednesday for two Oklahoma inmates who were scheduled to receive lethal injections in the coming weeks. More

October 27, 2021

Supreme Court rejected plea from South Carolina to reimpose death penalty on South Carolina inmate whose death sentence stood for two decades until federal appeals court threw it out. More

October 22, 2021

The U.S. Supreme Court appeared ready to reinstate the death penalty for convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. More

October 13, 2021

The appeals of two Oklahoma death row inmates convicted of murder were rejected Thursday by the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals. More

October 7, 2021

Jesse Johnson was accused of stabbing Harriet Thompson, a 28-year-old Black nurse’s aide, to death in her Salem home in 1998. More

October 7, 2021