The people pictured below are being held in state prisons while awaiting their execution dates for various murders that occurred throughout western Pennsylvania. Overall, more than 100 inmates...

The Department of Corrections (DOC) has no position on the death penalty. As an agency responsible for carrying out sentences imposed by the courts, it would be inappropriate to take sides on the issue of capital punishment.

As of August 2024, 96 people were on Pennsylvania's death row, all of whom are male. [16] 74% of inmates in Pennsylvania who are on death row have been on it for more than 10 years. [17] Some inmates who were facing death row have received re-trials or different sentencing strategies due to the 2015 moratorium. [18]

As of January 1, 2025, there were 2,092 death row inmates in the United States, including 46 women. [1] The number of death row inmates changes frequently with new convictions, appellate decisions overturning conviction or sentence alone, commutations, or deaths (through execution or otherwise). [2] Due to this fluctuation as well as lag and inconsistencies in inmate reporting …

Nov 14, 2019 · Here's a look at Pennsylvania's Death Row: Currently 136 inmates; All are men; Housed at SCI-Greene; Executions carried out at SCI-Rockview; LIST OF PEOPLE SENTENCED TO DEATH PENALTY IN...

The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. Since the reinstatement of the death penalty by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1976, 3 men, all convicted of murder, have been executed by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. All were executed by lethal injection, and in all cases, they waived their appeals and asked that ...

On April 25, 2024, a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania jury award­ed $ 16 mil­lion to for­mer death row pris­on­er Jimmy Dennis (pic­tured), who was wrong­ful­ly con­vict­ed and spent 25 years in prison.

Nov 18, 2019 · Pennsylvania will stop keeping death-row inmates in indefinite solitary confinement. They’ll now get at least 42½ hours per week out of their cell, and will be allowed to eat and attend religious services with other inmates.

Feb 16, 2023 · The state has not put an inmate to death since 1999, although seven convicted killers from Berks County are among 101 prisoners presently occupying a cell on Pennsylvania's death row.

Apr 16, 2020 · A fed­er­al dis­trict court judge has approved a set­tle­ment of a class action chal­lenge to the con­di­tions of con­fine­ment on Pennsylvania’s death row that offi­cial­ly ends the state’s pol­i­cy of manda­to­ry incar­cer­a­tion of death-row pris­on­ers in per­ma­nent solitary confinement.