Tennessee death row inmate Harold Wayne Nichols declined to choose between the electric chair and lethal injection before his Dec. 11 execution. Nichol declined to make his choice Nov. 10, a statement ...

Chuck Thompson has been on Texas Death Row for 27 years and is set to be executed in January. Credit: April Towery For Charles Victor Thompson, the one constant in his life has been the almost three ...

Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt has spared the life of a death row inmate just before he was set to receive a lethal injection on Thursday, commuting the man’s sentence to life in prison without parole.

A Louisiana inmate who spent nearly three decades on death row has been released on bail after his conviction was overturned. Jimmie Duncan was convicted of the first-degree murder of 23-month-old ...

The South Carolina House voted Wednesday, May 5, to add a firing squad to the state’s execution methods amid a lack of lethal-injection drugs—a measure meant to jump-start executions in a state that ...

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A Louisiana man who spent nearly three decades on death row has been released on bail Wednesday after his conviction was overturned earlier this year.Jimmie Duncan had originally been convicted of ...

The U.S. Supreme Court is set on Wednesday to hear a bid by Alabama officials to pursue the execution of an inmate convicted of a 1997 murder who a lower court found to be intellectually disabled and ...

A voting board in Oklahoma decided Wednesday to recommend clemency for Tremane Wood, a death row inmate who is scheduled to receive a lethal injection next week at the state penitentiary in McAlester.

The Florida Supreme Court and a federal appeals court have both refused to halt the execution, which, if carried out, would become the 19th execution in Florida this year. If the U.S. Supreme Court ...

Oklahoma leads the nation in executing death row inmates. Now, multiple Oklahoma-based organizations are joining the effort to end that practice.