For Charles Victor Thompson, the one constant in his life has been the almost three decades he's spent as Inmate No. 00999306 ...

Tennessee death row inmate Harold Wayne Nichols on Monday declined to choose between the electric chair and lethal injection ...

A death row inmate donates his kidney to a six-year-old girl, giving her a chance to live in a touching moment of compassion.

Bryan Jennings raped and killed a child in 1979. After 46 years and three trials, he’s still fighting to avoid Florida’s ...

Ohio has not carried out an execution since 2018, creating a de facto moratorium under Gov. Mike DeWine. State lawmakers are at an impasse over whether to abolish capital punishment or authorize new ...

Ohio hasn’t executed anyone on death row since 2018. Under Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine, who says the state can’t get the drugs it needs for lethal injections, the state has had an unofficial death penalty ...

The Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board voted 3–2 to recommend clemency for death row inmate Tremane Wood. Gov. Kevin Stitt will ...

Editor's note: This database contains descriptions of violent crimes. There are 113 people sitting on Ohio's death row. Some were sentenced to death decades ago, for murders committed in the 1980s and ...

Attorneys are asking a federal judge to block next month’s scheduled execution of a convicted child killer, arguing Florida’s death-warrant process “has rendered the right of (legal) ...