Death penalty cases cost taxpayers significantly more than cases where inmates serve life sentences. Capital cases are more ...

For the first time in more than 200 years, Tennessee is preparing to execute a woman on death row. Christa Gail Pike’s case ...

Only one of the 42 people on Tennessee’s death row is a woman, who is imprisoned for allegedly torturing and killing her ...

Tennessee’s sole female death row inmate, Christa Pike, is set to be the first woman executed in the state in more than 200 ...

A judge ruled Tony Carruthers is competent to be executed on May 21, rejecting defense claims that psychotic delusions keep ...

Billy Kearse was sentenced to death in 1997 for killing Fort Pierce police Sgt. Danny Parrish. Capital cases cost ...

Florida nearly doubled the national average of executions in 2025, with a record-breaking 19 death warrants carried out, according to an annual report released by the Death Penalty Information Center.

A man just weeks from execution is asking the Florida Supreme Court to force state agencies to turn over records he says he ...

The Florida Supreme Court halted the execution of James Duckett, a former officer convicted of murder, pending DNA testing.

Texas death row inmate Cedric Ricks, convicted of murdering his ex-girlfriend and her 8-year-old son, apologized to a surviving victim before execution.

Florida is preparing to carry out its fourth execution of the year as advocates against the death penalty warn about what ...

Arizona's Senate passed a measure that would allow voters to decide on firing squad executions, a method proponents call ...