Executions are on the rise in the United States. After creeping upward since the coronavirus pandemic, when the country's use of the death penalty reached a historic low, the numbers have skyrocketed ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Attorneys for Tennessee death row inmate Harold Wayne Nichols are asking the governor to convert his sentence to life imprisonment with just a month until his scheduled ...

TULSA, Okla. — With only days before his scheduled execution, the mother of Oklahoma death row inmate Tremane Wood said she’s fighting not only for her son’s life but for fairness in a system she ...

Lindsay Sandiford (3R) was sentenced to death on Bali in 2013 after she was convicted of trafficking drugs British death row inmates Lindsay Sandiford (R) and Shahab Shahabadi (L) attend a press ...

COMING UP, I’LL SHOW YOU THE UP AND DOWN TEMPERATURES AHEAD. FIRST AT 11, A HISTORIC EXECUTION TONIGHT IN SOUTH CAROLINA. BRAD SIGMON CHOSE TO DIE BY FIRING SQUAD. THE FIRST IN THE STATE. THE ...

FILE - This undated photo released by the Tennessee Department of Corrections shows Harold Nichols in Tennessee. (Tennessee Department of Corrections via the Chattanooga Free Press via AP, File) ...

HONOLULU (CN) — A federal judge in Hawaii on Thursday sentenced Isaiah McCoy to life in prison for sex trafficking three adults and one minor, concluding a case that exposed years of manipulation, ...

McALESTER, Okla. (AP) — An Oklahoma inmate whose life was spared by Gov. Kevin Stitt just moments before he was to receive a lethal injection on Thursday was later found unresponsive inside his cell ...