Tremane Wood was prepared to die by lethal injection, and Hilary Andersson was permitted to witness it. A minute before he was to be put to death, a call came in ...

The jury deciding whether Otto Lenke should receive the death penalty is deliberating at a moment when Florida is carrying out executions more aggressively than it has in decades — a shift driven ...

James Broadnax will soon take his last breath. For the last 17 years, the convicted murderer has been on death row, with his execution date—scheduled for April 30—now fast approaching. His ...

Soon after he took office in 2019, Gov. Mike DeWine imposed a kind of informal moratorium on executions in the Buckeye State. But Ohio’s thoughtful and respected chief executive has yet to say what he ...

America is returning to firing squad executions after failing to find a more humane way to carry out the death penalty.

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 ...

Chadwick Scott Willacy, convicted of first-degree murder for setting his elderly neighbor on fire after she allegedly caught him burglarizing her home, maintained his innocence right before being ...

An Alabama man on death row for raping and murdering a 5-year-old girl in late 2021 wants the state to hurry up and get it over with already. Jeremy Williams wants his execution fast-tracked, ...