Christa Pike is the only woman on Tennessee’s death row — one of 42 inmates awaiting execution in the state — and she is ...

A Texas court on Thursday rejected a ruling that a woman on death row for 18 years is innocent of capital murder in the ...

Prosecutors will not seek the death penalty in the upcoming trial against a 71-year-old Utah man who spent decades on death row for a 1985 killing that he says he didn’t commit ...

A Tennessee woman on death row is making headlines because of an unusual request ahead of her scheduled execution. Christa Pike, 50, is set to be executed on Sept. 30. She was sentenced to death in ...

On Wednesday, the Utah County Attorney’s Office announced that they will no longer be seeking the death penalty against Douglas Carter, accused of killing Provo resident ...

Every night, one of the men Ron McAndrew killed would sit at the foot of his bed and stare, blankly, into his tortured soul.

Our brains don’t finish developing until we’re well into our 20s. That matters when deciding who gets the death penalty.

Texas and Georgia are each planning to execute inmates within an hour of each other on Wednesday. Alabama is set to carry out ...

Luigi Mangione will not face the death penalty for allegedly killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson when his case goes to trial later this year, a federal judge ruled Friday, throwing out two ...

Protesters call for an end to the death penalty outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington on Dec. 3, 2025. Credit: OSV News photo/Jason Reed, Reuters The U.S. system of capital punishment operates ...

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