Steven Lawayne Nelson was executed via lethal injection in Huntsville, Texas, for the 2011 murder of Reverand Clint Dobson ...

Marion Bowman Jr., a South Carolina death row inmate who has spent more than two decades proclaiming his innocence, left ...

Demetrius Terrance Frazier was the fourth person executed in the United States using nitrogen hypoxia, which involves ...

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi announced she will direct the DOJ to pursue the death penalty at the state level against the ...

Steven Nelson sits behind glass at the Allan B Polunsky Unit, the prison that houses the 169 men on Texas’ death row in Livingston ... Dobson’s family told USA Today.

Trump’s new directive that aims to increase death sentences clashes with some Texas lawmakers’ efforts to add guardrails to ...

Marion Bowman Jr. was 20 years-old when he shot and killed Kandee Martin in Dorchester County, South Carolina.

If the execution moves forward, Nelson will be the first inmate ... death row since 1985. The population dropped below 200 in 2022 for the first time in nearly three decades, the center reports ...

In most states, inmates on death row get to pick whatever they want ... was the first woman in the United States to be executed after the 1976 resumption of capital punishment.

About 20 inmates have been taken off death row and received different prison sentences after successful appeals. Others have died of natural causes. The United States Supreme Court on Thursday denied ...

Steven Nelson has spent more than a dozen years on Death Row in Texas and is to be executed by lethal injection on Wednesday ...