‘He’s evil’: Victims’ family prepares for killer’s execution
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... More
November 16, 2021
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.
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... 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... More
November 1, 2021
By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press McALESTER, Okla. (AP) — Oklahoma administered the death penalty Thursday on a man who convulsed and vomited as he was More
October 29, 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... More
October 22, 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
A Texas inmate faces execution Tuesday evening for fatally stabbing two brothers during a robbery in their home more than 30 years ago. More
September 28, 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
By MICHAEL BALSAMO, COLLEEN LONG and MICHAEL TARM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department is halting federal executions after a historic More
July 1, 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
By MICHAEL TARM and HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (AP) — A Kansas woman was executed Wednesday for strangling an expectant More
January 13, 2021