Latavious Johnson, a death row inmate, was pronounced dead at about 3:30 p.m. at the Varner Supermax in Gould, according to the Arkansas Department of Correctio ...

California death row inmate Julian Mendez killed in Kern Valley State Prison allegedly involving more than 30 inmates, with Mario Renteria as the alleged initial attacker.

Prison officials served death row inmate Oscar Franklin Smith his last meal Wednesday night, about 16 hours before he's scheduled to die by lethal injection. Smith, 75, requested hotdogs, tater ...

South Carolina’s electric chair is located in Columbia at the Broad River Correctional Institute. The state has not carried out an execution since May 2011. The death penalty is on hold while ...

Ralph Menzies, a convicted killer in Utah who developed dementia during his decades on death row, is competent enough to be executed, a state judge ruled on Friday.

MEMPHIS, Tenn., (AP) — A Tennessee judge did not have the authority to give Pervis Payne, who was formerly on death row, concurrent sentences of life in prison after ruling that he was ...

Payne had been on death row for the killings of a woman and her 2-year-old daughter. In January 2022, Judge Paula Skahan sentenced Payne to concurrent sentences of life with the possibility of ...

As Florida inserts a needle to deliver a fatal drug to Anthony Wainwright, Alabama will strap a mask on Greg Hunt and pump him with nitrogen gas.

Sunny Jacobs, a former death row inmate who was convicted of a double murder in Florida in the 1970s and later freed, becoming a news media celebrity and a leading subject in an acclaimed Off ...

Death Becomes Her might not have come out on top at this year’s Tony Awards — but the cast is riding the high of their viral TikTok sound. “That fabulous Jennifer Simard is everything ...