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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

Wade Wilson, convicted of two counts of first-degree murder last year for the killings of two Cape Coral women, has been on death row since August 30. However, his time there has been far from ...

Attorney General Kris Mayes is seeking the execution of another man on Arizona’s death row. Richard Djerf was convicted in ...

[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 ...