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

Oscar Franklin Smith was executed by lethal injection on Thursday morning at the Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in ...

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

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

Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo. discusses the murders of two Israeli Embassy staffers and more on ‘The Faulkner Focus.’ ...

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

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 ...

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

Oscar Franklin Smith was the first death row inmate to be executed in Tennessee in five years. Witnesses recount the moments leading up to his execution, including a message to Governor Bill Lee.

The White House condemned the act, emphasizing the need to eradicate anti-Semitism. The case is being treated as a hate crime ...

Back in 2011, a sudden change to Texas law meant that death row inmates would no longer be granted their final meal requests.

[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 ...