death row

BOISE, Idaho—A federal judge has temporarily halted the planned execution of an Idaho man on death row whose first lethal injection attempt was botched earlier this year. Thomas Eugene Creech ...

WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court is leaving in place the sentence of a woman on death row in Alabama who ...

CINCINNATI—A new trial has been ordered for a man who spent more than a decade and a half ...

Gov. Katie Hobbs (D-Ariz.) announced a new executive order on Friday to establish a Death Penalty Independent Review ...

A former Houston police officer was executed on Tuesday for hiring two people to murder his estranged wife ...

The Ohio Supreme Court put an execution date on hold for a transgender inmate—a twice-convicted killer with disputed ...

A Texas death row inmate is expected to get a new trial over anti-Semitic bias harbored against him ...

A Texas inmate who murdered his pregnant ex-girlfriend and her 7-year-old son was executed by lethal injection on ...

Texas death row inmate John Ramirez, who won a legal bid to have a preacher by his side ...

A U.S. federal judge on Monday blocked the execution of a death row inmate in Alabama who has ...

The story is without a happy ending for most prisoners sitting on death row in the United States. But ...

The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals on Monday granted a stay of execution for a woman who was ...

HOUSTON—Texas’ oldest death row inmate faces execution Thursday for killing a Houston police officer nearly 32 years ago ...

SANTA CLARA, Calif.—Thirty years ago, a Los Angeles man was sentenced to death for killing a father of ...

A death row inmate was put to death late Thursday after the Supreme Court overturned a lower court ...

OKLAHOMA CITY—A state appeals court on Wednesday rejected the appeal of an Oklahoma death row inmate who was ...

Commentary Bowing to intense political pressure, Oklahoma’s Kevin Stitt, the Republican governor of one of the nation’s reddest ...

House Democrats are hoping to vote on President Joe Biden's larger social spending plan next week. But is ...

JACKSON, Miss.—A Mississippi judge will decide whether a death row inmate who says he wants to be executed ...

A federal judge in Oklahoma on Monday allowed the state to proceed with the scheduled lethal injection executions ...

Commentary A medium-rare rib-eye steak, a baked potato with butter and sour cream, an iceberg lettuce salad, garlic ...

The U.S. Supreme Court rejected a Missouri death row inmate's petition to be executed by firing squad rather ...

South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster signed a bill into law over the weekend that would require death row ...

The South Carolina House voted on May 5 to add firing squads as an alternative execution method for ...

A gifted UK student overcame incredible odds facing homelessness as a teen and going to school; she has ...

The South Carolina Senate voted on March 2 in favor of a measure that added firing squads as an ...

A federal appeals court has cleared the way on Friday for the only woman on federal death row ...