NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Attorneys for a Tennessee death row inmate have launched a last-ditch effort to prevent his Aug. 5 ...

Byron James Shepard was in the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester, awaiting execution for the fatal shooting of a Tecumseh police officer.

Richard Jordan, who spent 48 years on Mississippi’s death row, received an execution by lethal injection at the state ...

The Rev. Jeff Hood has witnessed 11 executions: four in Oklahoma, three in Alabama, two in Texas, one in Missouri and one in ...

Twenty-four men have died by court-ordered execution so far this year in the U.S., and five other people are scheduled to be put to death in four states during the remainder of 2025. A Florida man ...

Mississippi is set to carry out its 20th execution by lethal injection as Richard Jordan, who's sat on death row for 48 years ...

STARKE, Fla. (AP) — A man convicted of raping and killing a woman near a central Florida bar was executed Tuesday evening.

For the past five years, no more than 24 executions occurred annually — but 2025 is already near that mark, with more ...

While this series has been a chess match that will thrill fans of the Xs and Os of the game (Indiana moving the pick-up point ...

Mississippi prisoner Richard Gerald Jordan is hoping for relief from federal courts or clemency from Gov. Tate Reeves to stop ...

John Fitzgerald Hanson, 61, was pronounced dead at 10:11 a.m. Thursday, June 12, at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary.

Hanson, 61, faces execution for the fatal shooting of an elderly Tulsa woman in 1999. His execution by lethal injection is set for 10 a.m. Thursday at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester.