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

Court refuses to stop the execution of a man who killed three people over five days while leaving taunting messages for police in blood.

Stephen Bryant, a 44-year-old convicted killer, is scheduled to face a firing squad in South Carolina on Friday, marking the state's third such execution this year. Bryant was condemned for killing three people over five days in a rural area in 2004.

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 William C. Holman Correctional Facility with nitrogen gas on Thursday ...

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 penalty moratorium. DeWine, though, has just a little ...

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 to death in 1994 on his conviction for the 1992 murders of ...

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