The U.S. could see the highest number of inmates put to death in a single year since 2018, despite waning support for capital ...

The United States has executed 23 men this year, with six of those executions coming during one remarkable 11-day period. At least two more executions are scheduled before the end of the year.

More than two years after Tennessee abruptly halted the execution of inmate Oscar Smith — admitting that correction officials ...

States in which at least one execution occurred: 13/50 12 states out of 50 Source: Death Penalty Information Center The ...

Tennessee announced Friday a new method that could allow the state to resume executions after the last scheduled execution was abruptly halted in 2022.

An Oklahoma panel on Friday rejected a plea for clemency for a man convicted of torturing and killing a 10-year-old girl as ...

HOUSTON — The number of executions in the U.S. remained near historic lows in ... issuing a subpoena for Roberson to testify days after he was scheduled to die. Lawyers for Oklahoma death ...

Missouri’s status as one of the most active death penalty states is about to change for one simple reason: The state is ...

making it the 24th execution in the U.S. this year. He was scheduled to be executed with the powerful sedative pentobarbital, although officials did not mention that drug in their statement.

Kevin Ray Underwood was given a lethal injection Thursday morning and was pronounced dead at 10:14 a.m. at the Oklahoma State ...

Corcoran was scheduled to be executed with the powerful sedative pentobarbital, but the state agency’s statement did not mention that drug. Corcoran’s execution was the 24th in the US this year.

Executions have historically been carried out with at least some public scrutiny, from public hangings in the town square to ...