McALESTER, Okla. (AP) — Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt has spared the life of a death row inmate just before he was set to receive a lethal injection on Thursday, commuting the man's sentence to life in ...

The new wife of a convicted double murderer screamed as her husband was executed in front of her, before the distraught woman claimed he was “murdered by the state of Texas”.

This story is part of a series examining the death penalty in Texas. You can read more about how the system works here and a firsthand account from a reporter who witnessed an execution here.

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Attorneys for Tennessee death row inmate Harold Wayne Nichols are asking the governor to convert his sentence to life imprisonment with just a month until his scheduled ...

Billy Kearse was sentenced to death in 1997 for killing Fort Pierce police Sgt. Danny Parrish. Capital cases cost significantly more than life sentence cases. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a record ...

In a shocking turn of events, a death row inmate seemed to defy death after his execution, with an electrocardiogram indicating his heart continued to beat for nearly two minutes post his official ...

I first met William Noguera in June 2013 when he was on San Quentin’s Death Row in San Quentin, California. I was led into a cage where there was a small table and two chairs among other cages with ...

Stacey Ian Humphreys, who sits on death row for the murder of two Cobb County real estate agents, can’t pause his execution over a pandemic-era memo that has shielded some capital inmates, a federal ...

The number of death row inmates from Brevard County has dropped from 12 to three over the last decade. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has increased the pace of executions, with 19 inmates executed in 2025.