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.
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... 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
Missouri Gov. Mike Parson declined to grant clemency to death row inmate Ernest Johnson despite requests for mercy from the pope two federal lawmakers and... More
October 4, 2021
Scott Peterson who spent more than 15 years on Death Row in the 2002 murders of his pregnant wife and unborn son will be sentenced... More
September 23, 2021
By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — Another Texas inmate has had his execution delayed over claims the state is violating his religious More
September 17, 2021
John Henry Ramirez was condemned for the 2004 killing of Pablo Castro as he took out the trash from a Corpus Christi convenience store. More
September 8, 2021
Oklahoma appeals court reversed previous rulings that overturned death penalty cases based on Supreme Court ruling limiting state jurisdiction for crimes committed on tribal reservations. More
August 31, 2021
The California Supreme Court on Monday reversed the death penalty for a woman who killed her four young daughters and tried to kill her son... More
May 4, 2021
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court said Monday it will consider reinstating the death sentence for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, presenting More
March 22, 2021
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — As many as 10 death row inmates in Oklahoma, more than one-fifth of the state’s prisoners condemned to die, could escape... More
March 1, 2021
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The daughter of a Tennessee man executed 14 years ago for murder wants to test DNA evidence to prove his innocence.... More
February 4, 2021
December 14, 2020
The U.S. Justice Department asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's case after his death sentence was thrown out. More
October 7, 2020
The U.S. Justice Department will seek to reinstate the death penalty for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who was convicted in the Boston Marathon Bombing. More
August 20, 2020
BOSTON (AP) — Federal prosecutors said Monday that they need more time to decide whether to ask an appeals court to reconsider the case of... More
August 11, 2020
A federal appeals court threw out Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's death sentence for the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, citing a juror issue. More
August 4, 2020
Serial killer Lonnie Franklin, Jr. was found dead in his death row jail cell. More
April 2, 2020
MAGNOLIA, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi man was given four death sentences by a jury on Thursday, hours after he spoke in court and blamed... More
February 28, 2020
By MICHAEL BALSAMO and JAMES MARTINEZ Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — White supremacist mass murderer Dylann Roof staged a hunger strike this month More
February 25, 2020
BY PHILIP MARCELO ASSOCIATED PRESS BOSTON (AP) — Should the Boston Marathon bomber’s trial have taken place in Boston as the city was still reeling... More
December 12, 2019
HOUSTON (AP) — Supporters of a Texas death row inmate who is facing lethal injection in less than two weeks for a murder he says... More
November 8, 2019
