Without Florida, the national execution rate would be like an average year, with fewer than 30 executions across the country.

Disclaimer: The article has mentions of killing. Christa Gail Pike is currently the only woman on Tennessee’s death row, ...

After six judges recused themselves, a civil judge has been assigned to oversee the retrial of former death row inmate ...

The case has been dropped against a man who spent a quarter-century on death row for the robbery and murder of a New Jersey woman at an Ohio hotel nearly three decades ago.

The Supreme Court will hear the appeal of a Mississippi death row inmate whose case involved a prosecutor with a history of racial bias in jury selection.

The concept of a "last meal" on death row is widely known, but the final words uttered by condemned individuals are often far more revealing and unsettling. History records a chilling collection of ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A Louisiana man who spent nearly three decades on death row has been released on bail Wednesday after his conviction was overturned earlier this year. Jimmie Duncan had originally ...

Frank Athen Walls, 58, was pronounced dead at 6:11 p.m. after being injected with a three-drug cocktail while strapped to a gurney inside the death chamber at Florida State Prison in Raiford.

This story is part of a series examining the death penalty in Texas. You can read more about the lives of death row inmates at the Polunsky Unit here and a first-person account from a reporter who ...

Frank Walls' execution will mark Florida's 19th this year, shattering the state's previous record of eight executions set in 2014.