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

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

Tennessee inmate Oscar Smith was executed by lethal injection on Thursday morning for the 1989 murders of his estranged wife, Judith Smith, and her teenage sons, Jason and Chad Burnett. Smith was ...

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

Brad Sigmon become the first person in almost 15 years to be executed by a previously banned method earlier this year ...

Interim U.S. Attorney for D.C. Jeanine Pirro announces that the suspect in the murder of 2 Israeli diplomats could face the ...

Gregory Hunt, convicted of the 1998 murder and sexual assault of Karen Lane, will argue that he killed but did not sexually ...

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 ...

THE man suspected of shooting dead two Israeli embassy officials in Washington fired 21 shots and reloaded as his wounded victims crawled away, according to court documents. Elias Rodriguez, 31, ...

[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 ...