1st US execution of female inmate in 67 years halted
By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press MISSION, Kan. (AP) — A judge has granted a stay in what was slated to be the U.S. government's first... More
January 12, 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 HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press MISSION, Kan. (AP) — A judge has granted a stay in what was slated to be the U.S. government's first... More
January 12, 2021
December 14, 2020
By MICHAEL TARM AP Legal Affairs Writer TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (AP) — The Trump administration Thursday carried out its ninth federal execution of the year... More
December 11, 2020
By MICHAEL TARM AP Legal Affairs Writer CHICAGO (AP) — The Trump administration is planning an unprecedented five more federal executions before More
December 10, 2020
By MICHAEL BALSAMO and MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — As the U.S. government rushes to put inmates to death in a pandemic before More
December 9, 2020
By MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge is temporarily blocking the federal government’s plan to execute the first female More
November 19, 2020
By JIM SALTER Associated Press The federal government prepared Thursday to execute an inmate who was condemned for kidnapping and raping a 16-year-old More
November 19, 2020
By MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A woman convicted of fatally strangling a pregnant woman, cutting her body open and kidnapping her More
October 19, 2020
By MICHAEL BALSAMO and JESSICA GRESKO Associated Press TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (AP) — The United States on Thursday carried out its second federal execution More
July 16, 2020
By MICHAEL BALSAMO and MICHAEL TARM Associated Press TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (AP) — A judge on Wednesday halted the execution of a man said to... More
July 15, 2020
By MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (AP) — The U.S. government on Tuesday carried out the first federal execution in almost two decades, More
July 14, 2020
By MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (AP) — The federal government is set to carry out the first federal execution in nearly two... More
July 13, 2020
By JACQUES BILLEAUD Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Four death row prisoners have tested positive for the coronavirus and another five are showing More
April 23, 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
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