Federal appellate judges have revived a lawsuit by some Georgia death row prisoners alleging the state is unfairly favoring ...

The 47 women on death row and thousands of others serving life terms face treatment that advocates say is often harsher than ...

Florida executed its oldest death row inmate Thursday, carrying out the state’s ninth execution of 2026 as religious leaders ...

A former Oklahoma death row inmate who was released from incarceration after nearly three decades is scheduled to be back in ...

Oklahoma’s death row currently includes 21 inmates whose convictions span cases from 1992 through 2022. Oklahoma has executed ...

Weeks before calling to abolish capital punishment in Ohio, Gov. Mike DeWine commuted the man’s death sentence to life in ...

The decision affirms a lower court’s ruling nullifying Jimmie “Chris” Duncan’s 1998 first-degree murder conviction. Duncan ...

Netflix’s June 2026 documentary Maternal Instinct has reignited public interest in one of the most disturbing crimes in ...

Christa Gail Pike, who has been on Tennessee’s death row for decades, is now actively fighting to stop her execution as it is scheduled for September 30, 2026. Christa Gail Pike was only 18 when she ...

Tony Carruthers' scheduled execution in Tennessee on Thursday was halted after officials failed to find a vein for the lethal injection. Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee granted Carruthers a one-year stay ...

Gov. Mike DeWine has officially called for an end to the death penalty in Ohio. Explore our database of inmates that could be affected.

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