Disclaimer: The article has mentions of killing. Christa Gail Pike is currently the only woman on Tennessee’s death row, ...

The Supreme Court will hear the appeal of a Mississippi death row inmate whose case involved a prosecutor with a history of ...

Michael James Jackson, the man identified as the ringleader in the grim 2005 "buried alive" murders of a Jacksonville couple, ...

Governor Kevin Stitt granted clemency Thursday morning to death row inmate Tremane Wood, minutes before his scheduled execution. Stitt accepted the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board’s recommendation ...

Louisiana prosecutors are seeking to reinstate the overturned conviction and death sentence of Jimmie Duncan, despite the ...

This story is part of a series examining the death penalty in Texas. You can read more about the lives of death row inmates at the Polunsky Unit here and a first-person account from a reporter who ...

Stitt previously granted clemency to death row inmate Julius Jones in 2021, but had rejected clemency recommendations in four other cases. A total of 16 men have been executed during Stitt’s time in ...

A former SCI-Somerset inmate was sentenced to death row this year for beating a corrections sergeant to death in 2018.

The ACLU of Florida has condemned the Florida Supreme Court's decision to uphold a non-unanimous jury standard for imposing ...

Governor Ahmadu Fintiri of Adamawa State has granted pardon to a death row inmate, Sunday Jackson. Jackson was sentenced to ...

A man sentenced to death for the 1980 rape and murder of a Seal Beach woman died in prison on Monday, Dec. 22 at the age of ...