By painting their final meal before execution, an artist humanized people sentenced to capital punishment.

Tennessee's high court has ruled that a death row inmate can be executed without deactivating his implanted defibrillator.

A Texas man faces execution for the murder of his daughter, a case many believe is a tragic miscarriage of justice after two ...

Death row inmate Robert Roberson is appealing his Oct. 16 execution date. Last week, a state judge sided with Attorney ...

Roberson, who has spent more than 20 years on death row, was convicted in 2003 of killing his daughter, Nikki.

A hearing on Wednesday will determine whether Texas can proceed with a new execution date for condemned inmate Robert Roberson, who would be the first put to death in the United States in a case of so ...

Maurine Hunsaker was just 26 years old when she was robbed, kidnapped and murdered nearly four decades ago. Now, in July 2025 ...

This story was updated following the execution. COLUMBIA — Inmate Stephen Stanko, who was sentenced to death twice in separate cases, was executed Friday by lethal injection. The 57-year-old was ...

Robert Roberson is seen in December 2023 at the prison in Polk County where he is awaiting execution. New analyses by ...

An eighth death warrant is still being contested in the courts. The denial of killer Thomas Gudinas’ last-resort appeal marked the court’s 140th consecutive ruling against a death row inmate.

With 34 inmates currently on Florida’s death row for Duval County cases, all obviously involve a certain amount of vileness and contempt. So there’s no way to quantify the most sinister.