A convicted murderer killed my coworker at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility. The death penalty would have kept him from killing again.

Condemned prisoners on California's death row are partly filling their time by watching pornography and engaging in lewd conversations using taxpayer-funded tablets as the state continues its shift ...

Lawyers for Dominick Occhicone, who turns 81 next month, say his plan execution is cruel and unusual punishment for the ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Tennessee Governor Bill Lee issued a temporary one-year reprieve after death row inmate Tony Carruthers’ execution failed Thursday morning due to medical complications. NewsNation ...

Eight death row inmates in Idaho will soon face death in a brand new, top-of-the-line firing squad chamber — and state officials are looking for volunteers to fire the rifles. According to ...

In a rare ruling for a condemned prisoner, the justices would not let Alabama use a contested method of execution. By Adam Liptak Adam Liptak is the chief legal correspondent and host of The Docket.

Three American inmates are set to be executed on Wednesday and Thursday in what stands to become the deadliest week for the death penalty in the U.S. so far this year. Arizona is set to execute Leroy ...

Florida is currently preparing to execute it's oldest inmate, a 74-year-old convicted murderer, today (July 14), who has been ...