Richard Knight, a Florida death row inmate, is scheduled to be executed May 21 after Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a death warrant ...

PHOENIX (AZFamily) — This week, the Pinal County attorney announced intentions to seek the death penalty for the man accused of killing Apache Junction Police Officer Gabriel Facio. Even if the ...

If you have a Good Question you’d like us to try to answer, send it to goodquestion@wkyt.com.

Note to readers •The Salt Lake Tribune is making this story about the Utah Legislature free to all. Donate to support our nonprofit newsroom. In Utah, death row inmates have been sitting in prison ...

Soon after he took office in 2019, Gov. Mike DeWine imposed a kind of informal moratorium on executions in the Buckeye State. But Ohio’s thoughtful and respected chief executive has yet to say what he ...

When the men who murdered Carmen Gayheart were sentenced to death in 1995, her sister, Maria David, thought it might be 12 or 14 years before they were executed. She waited 31. Life went on. David got ...

SALT LAKE CITY — Recent changes to state law keep Utahns in the dark when it comes to certain information about the state's death penalty process. As death row inmate Ralph Menzies' attorneys are ...

This story is part of a series examining the death penalty in Texas. You can read more about the lives of death row inmates at the Polunsky Unit here and a first-person account from a reporter who ...

A condemned inmate is led to his cell in San Quentin’s death row on March 25, 2024. California is shutting down death row and transferring 471 condemned people out of the prison and into the general ...

Trump officials are retaliating by imposing the harshest conditions in the entire federal prison system—including near total isolation. Inside the federal supermax tucked away in Colorado’s high ...