A state district judge has signed death warrants setting execution dates for two men convicted of murders in Caddo Parish -- ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Nine Tennessee death row inmates are suing the state over its push for a new round of lethal ...

Texas state prisons incarcerate more than 4,500 people in two-person cells the size of a parking space for nearly 24 hours a ...

Mikal Mahdi murdered an off-duty police officer by shooting him eight times and dousing him in diesel before setting him ...

I watched my client's execution by firing squad. He chose it after three lethal injection executions left men lingering on a ...

Mahdi, 41, had the choice of dying by firing squad, lethal injection or the electric chair. He will be the first inmate to be ...

If his execution proceeds, Mahdi will be the second South Carolinian to die by firing squad in the last 40 days, following ...

Wood has been on Texas Death Row for nearly four decades even though ... USA TODAY on Feb. 26 during an interview at a Texas state prison north of Houston. “How can I not be angry at the ...

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (KBTX) - Authorities have identified and arrested a suspect in the March 7 shooting death of Tyrese O’Bryant in Huntsville. The Huntsville Police Department (HPD) announced on ...

A former British prison officer has revealed the three ways death row prisoners "normally" react before their execution. Alex South has worked at some of the UK's toughest and most notorious ...

at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice's Huntsville Unit prison in Livingston, Texas on Feb. 26, 2025. Wood has been on Texas Death Row since 1992, when he was convicted of killing six women ...