What's driving the rise in U.S. death row executions in 2025?

This year is expected to see capital punishment carried out more often than any other year since 2009. Experts weigh in on ...
radaronline

Alabama Death Row Inmate Says Three Chilling Final Words Before 20-Minute Execution Using Nitrogen Gas for 1993 Murder

An Alabama death row inmate was executed via a controversial method after uttering three spine-chilling final words, RadarOnline.com can reveal. Todd Boyd, 54, was put to death at the ...
Columbus Dispatch

'Death Delayed' series explores what the future holds for Ohio's death penalty system

Ohio hasn’t executed anyone on death row since 2018. Under Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine, who says the state can’t get the drugs it needs for lethal injections, the state has had an unofficial death ...

Oklahoma death row inmate granted clemency on the morning of his scheduled execution

Tremane Wood was scheduled to be executed in Oklahoma on Thursday. Gov. Kevin Sitt commuted his death sentence to life ...
WDRB

Kentucky AG calls on Beshear to authorize execution of man on death row for 30 years

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Kentucky's attorney general is joining a push for Gov. Andy Beshear to authorize the execution of an inmate who has spent decades on death row. Ralph Baze was sentenced ...

Innocent man freed after 28 years hopes to see end of Ohio's death penalty

Kwame Ajamu spent 28 years in prison – three on death row – for a Cleveland murder he didn't commit. He's now pushing for ...
CBS News

Alabama inmate set to die by nitrogen gas for 1993 murder maintains his innocence: "I didn't kill anybody"

A man who is scheduled to be executed later this month for a 1993 murder continues to maintain his innocence, saying on Wednesday, "I didn't kill anybody. I didn't participate in any killing." Boyd ...