Next month, the state of Florida will officially be allowed to use new means of executing prisoners on death row — with some ...

The court had earlier vacated Darrell Robinson's conviction and death sentence in a brutal quadruple murder in Rapides Parish ...

In a 6-3 ruling Thursday by Justice Sonia Sotomayor, the court said federal courts can review Ruben Gutierrez’s challenge to ...

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. Five other people are scheduled to be put ...

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

Federal appellate judges are reconsidering what will happen next for Brenda Andrew, the only woman on Oklahoma’s death row.

June 10 (UPI) --Oklahoma will seek a new murder trial for longtime death row inmate Richard Glossip but next round without the death penalty.During a status hearing at the Oklahoma County ...

Oklahoma prosecutors say they will retry longtime death row inmate Richard Glossip a third time for his role in the 1997 killing of his former boss. The decision announced Monday ...

The last time a death sentence was imposed in Oklahoma was on May 13, 2022. A judge sentenced David Ware, 37, to die for the fatal shooting of a Tulsa police officer during a traffic stop.

Death penalty opponents have packed past clemency hearings. Only a few showed up for Hanson's hearing. Among those present was Don Heath, chair of the Oklahoma Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty.

An inmate on Oklahoma's death row for murdering a woman during a home invasion was executed on Thursday morning.Wendell Grissom was convicted of killing Amber Matthews, a young mother, in 2005.