NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Attorneys for a Tennessee death row inmate have launched a last-ditch effort to prevent his Aug. 5 ...

Byron James Shepard was in the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester, awaiting execution for the fatal shooting of a Tecumseh police officer.

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An Oklahoma appeals court on Wednesday ordered a stay of execution to be lifted for a man on death row, clearing the way for him to ...

If it’s left to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who recently made an unprecedented intervention in the case, Roberson ...

Richard Jordan, who spent 48 years on Mississippi’s death row, received an execution by lethal injection at the state ...

Three survivors and victims’ families of the Oklahoma City bombing reflect on their enduring grief and the difficult but ...

On April 22, 1992, Roberts was staying as a houseguest at Wendell Satterfield's residence when he committed the crime. Jones, ...

The Rev. Jeff Hood has witnessed 11 executions: four in Oklahoma, three in Alabama, two in Texas, one in Missouri and one in ...

Mississippi death row inmate Richard Jordan's execution is scheduled for June 25th, amidst legal challenges to the state's three-drug protocol. Jordan's attorneys argue for the use of ...

Twenty-four men have died by court-ordered execution so far this year in the U.S. Five other people are scheduled to be put ...

Attorney General Gentner Drummond commended Hanson’s execution, saying that while the crime was committed over 25 years ago, Oklahoma will hold murderers accountable.

John Fitzgerald Hanson, 61, was executed in Oklahoma on Thursday, June 12, for the 1999 murder of Mary Agnes Bowles. This was Oklahoma's 17th execution since 2021 and the third in the U.S. that week.