On Thursday night, Florida executed its 19th person on death row this year, more than doubling the state's previous annual record.

Fewer Americans support capital punishment. Fewer courts are handing out death sentences. And we’ve got way more executions ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WOIO) -Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost testified before the House Judiciary Committee encouraging Ohio to become the next state to use nitrogen hypoxia to execute death row inmates.

While Ohio has joined a few other states in pausing executions, the number of people put to death nationwide so far this year has already hit a 15-year high.

The South Carolina House voted Wednesday, May 5, to add a firing squad to the state’s execution methods amid a lack of lethal-injection drugs—a measure meant to jump-start executions in a state that ...

On this day in history, the US carried out its first execution by lethal injection — a method thought up by one doctor.

Tennessee death row inmate Harold Wayne Nichols declined to choose between the electric chair and lethal injection before his Dec. 11 execution. Nichol declined to make his choice Nov. 10, a statement ...

Death row killer Harold Wayne Nichols, 64, is set to be executed by lethal injection for his brutal 1988 crimes after having two previous execution dates postponed ...

15 MINUTES. CAMERON. YEAH, BACK TO THE BREAKING NEWS THIS MORNING. OKLAHOMA DEATH ROW INMATE TRAMAINE WOOD WAS JUST SAVED FROM EXECUTION AT THE LAST MINUTE. A DRAMATIC MOVE FROM GOVERNOR KEVIN STITT ...

Since executions resumed in Sept. 2024, seven men have been executed by lethal injection and firing squad in South Carolina.

Until this year, death penalty executions had been dwindling across the nation. The sudden spike now is unusual, experts say.Forty-six people on death row have been executed so far this year, and two ...