Mississippi governor will not stop execution of death row inmate Charles Ray Crawford

Gov. Tate Reeves will not step in to stop the execution of a man convicted of raping and killing a college student more than ...
South Carolina Public Radio

South Carolina's longest-serving death row inmate dies of natural causes after 42 years in prison

A South Carolina inmate who spent 42 years on death row has died of natural causes at a prison hospital. Fred Singleton was ...
Soap Central

When was Aileen Wuornos executed? Details from Netflix's Queen of the Serial Killers docufilm, explored

Queen of the Serial Killers, revisits the infamous serial killing incident from the '90s that shook the state of Florida to ...
WBEZOpinion

Column: People affected by prisons get a chance to tell their stories this October

Nestor Gomez, a Sun-Times Chicago's Next Voices columnist, writes about the Resilience Arts Festival coming next month to ...
Winston-Salem Journal

A serial killer terrorized Triad boys for decades. How survivors led to his arrest

"I couldn't conceive how someone could be so vicious as to hit someone on the head with a ballpeen hammer or stab them and then sit there talking to me ...

Florida man convicted of raping, killing 6-year-old girl in 1979 to be executed

Bryan Fredrick Jennings, 66, is scheduled to die by lethal injection on Nov. 13 at Florida State Prison. Jennings would be ...

Four men are set for execution this week. It's the busiest death penalty month since 2011.

Victims of the inmates include a family of four, a college student kidnapped from her bedroom, and a state trooper who was ...

Trump’s death penalty push gains traction in statehouses

State lawmakers have taken up President Trump’s aggressive push to expand the use of the death penalty, setting up legislative and legal battles that could make a wider range of crimes subject to ...