Ralph Leroy Menzies, 67, is set to be executed Sept. 5 for abducting and killing Utah mother of three Maurine Hunsaker in ...

Byron James Shepard was in t State Penitentiary in McAlester, awaiting execution for the fatal shooting of a Tecumseh police officer.

OKLAHOMA CITY — Oklahoma Attorney General John O’Connor has asked the Court of Criminal Appeals to set execution dates for seven death-row inmates, including Julius Jones. The action comes ...

Ralph Leroy Menzies, 67, is set to be executed on Sept. 5, but his lawyers say his deteriorating mental state, caused by ...

MCALESTER, Okla. (KFOR) – The state of Oklahoma executed death row inmate John Hanson on Thursday. Officials say Hanson and an accomplice carjacked and kidnapped 77-year-old Mary Bowles in Tulsa ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Attorneys for a Tennessee death row inmate have launched a last-ditch effort to prevent his Aug. 5 ...

Oklahoma Death Row inmate John Hanson was executed on Thursday for the 1999 kidnapping and killing of Mary Bowles.

The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals upheld William Reece’s death sentence for the 1997 murder of Tiffany Johnston, rejecting claims his confession was coerced.

The U.S. Supreme Court has at times spared prisoners with dementia from execution, including an Alabama man in 2019 who had ...

Mississippi is set to carry out its 20th execution by lethal injection as Richard Jordan, who's sat on death row for 48 years, faces death this week.

The Rev. Jeff Hood has witnessed 11 executions: four in Oklahoma, three in Alabama, two in Texas, one in Missouri and one in Florida.  The Rev. Jeff Hood is “determined to let people know you’re ...