Accused of killing two Israeli Embassy staff in Washington, Elias Rodriguez could face capital punishment, with charges ...

The Rev. Jeff Hood, a noted anti-death penalty activist and death row spiritual adviser, has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.

Oscar Franklin Smith was served his last meal on May 21 ahead of his execution scheduled for 10 a.m. the next morning.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro said the D.C. shooting of two Israeli embassy staffers is being investigated as a hate ...

Christa Pike, then 18, tortured and killed another young woman. In 2024, Pike was removed from de facto solitary confinement.

Tennessee inmate Oscar Smith was executed by lethal injection on Thursday morning for the 1989 murders of his estranged wife, ...

A South Carolina inmate whose best friend and four other inmates have been put to death in less than a year appears to want ...

On 1 October, 1989, Robirds was shot in the neck before being stabbed several times. Her eldest, Chad, was found having been ...

Back in 2011, a sudden change to Texas law meant that death row inmates would no longer be granted their final meal requests.

The Tennessee Supreme Court set execution dates for four people on death row in 2025. Oscar Franklin Smith's execution May 22 was the first in five years. A judge has temporarily called off one man's ...

Jose 'Lou' Escobedo, 28, his wife Yessica, 25, and their sons, ages 4 and 3, were fatally shot in Florida. Biden commuted the ...

[From: Society’s Final Solution: A History and Discussion of the Death Penalty, Laura E. Randa, ed., University Press of America, Inc., 1997. Reprinted with ...