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

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.

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

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

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 ...

Since then, the state has killed seven men in around 15 months. As 2025 comes to a close, South Carolina executed five men on ...

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 ...

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 ...

A report from the Death Penalty Information Center shows Alabama played a key role in executions and new death sentences.

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 ...