Florida serial killer set to die as state sets record pace for executions

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a death warrant this week for Frank Athen Walls, whose execution is now scheduled for Dec. 18.

• Nov 19

Death row inmate granted clemency right before his scheduled execution

Tremane Wood was scheduled to be executed in Oklahoma on Thursday. Gov. Kevin Sitt commuted his death sentence to life imprisonment without parole.

• Nov 13

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 the increase.

• Nov 13

Tennessee death row inmate declines to choose execution method

Harold Wayne Nichols declined to choose between the electric chair and lethal injection for his Dec. 11 execution.

• Nov 11

Oklahoma board recommends clemency for inmate set to be executed

Members of the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board decided in a 3-2 vote on Wednesday to recommend that the governor grant clemency to death row inmate Tremane Wood.

• Nov 6

Alabama death row inmate maintains innocence as execution date nears

A man on Alabama's death row has maintained his innocence for three decades and chaired an inmate-founded advocacy group to abolish the death penalty.

• Oct 9

Tennessee set to execute only woman on state's death row. Here's what to know.

Christa Gail Pike, 49, will become the first woman put to death in Tennessee in more than 200 years if her execution proceeds next September.

• Oct 2

Firing squad execution of prisoner with dementia blocked by Utah court

The Utah Supreme Court blocked a death row inmate's upcoming execution, after the inmate's attorneys argued his dementia has significantly worsened.

• Sep 2

Trump says U.S. will seek the death penalty for murders committed in D.C.

"If somebody kills somebody in the capital, Washington, D.C., we're going to be seeking the death penalty," President Trump said.

• Aug 26

Prosecutors seek death penalty in fatal shooting of Border Patrol agent

Teresa Youngblut is charged with murder in the fatal shooting of David Maland during a traffic stop in northern Vermont.

• Aug 14

In a first, Tennessee executes man with implanted heart device

Byron Black's execution marked the first time a man has been put to death with a working defibrillator in his chest, experts say.

• Aug 5

17 people executed in Saudi Arabia, mostly for drug crimes

It is the quickest pace of capital punishment since March 2022, when 81 people were executed in a single day for terrorism-related offenses.

• Aug 4

Tennessee contests turning off inmate's heart device before execution

Byron Black, who has an implanted cardioverter-defibrillator, is scheduled to die by lethal injection on Aug. 5.

• Jul 25

Inmate's heart device must be turned off at execution, judge rules

A judge has ruled that a death row inmate's heart device must be deactivated when he receives a lethal injection in Tennessee Aug. 5.

• Jul 21

Utah man with dementia faces firing squad execution in September

Ralph Leroy Menzies, 67, is set to be executed Sept. 5 for abducting and killing Utah mother of three Maurine Hunsaker in 1986.

• Jul 10

Examining Trump's push for death penalty

President Trump signed an executive order on the first day of his second term stating, "capital punishment is an essential tool for deterring and punishing those who would commit the most heinous crimes." Justin Mazzola, researcher for Amnesty International, joins "The Takeout" to discuss the future of capital punishment in the U.S.

• Jun 12
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Indiana man put to death for murder of police officer in 2000

An Indiana man convicted in the 2000 fatal shooting of a police officer is set to receive a lethal injection this week in the state's second execution in 15 years.

• May 20

Alabama inmate wants his execution to go forward: "I am guilty"

James Osgood was condemned to die for the 2010 killing of Tracy Lynn Brown. He is one of only a small number of inmates on U.S. death rows to abandon their legal challenges.

• Apr 23

Oklahoma executes man who killed woman in 2005 home invasion

Wendell Grissom received a lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary and was pronounced dead at 10:13 a.m.

• Mar 20

Louisiana puts man to death in state's first nitrogen gas execution

Jessie Hoffman Jr., 46, was put to death Tuesday evening in Louisiana's first execution in 15 years.

• Mar 19

Woman on Texas death row for 27 years has conviction tossed

A federal appeals court tossed Brittany Holberg's death sentence after it found that prosecutors failed to reveal that their primary trial witness was a paid informant.

• Mar 12

How South Carolina's first firing squad execution will unfold

Not much is known about the people who will fire the rifles. Prison officials said they have "completed all required training."

• Mar 4

Oklahoma executes man who killed girl during cannibalistic fantasy

Kevin Underwood, who killed 10-year-old Jamie Rose Rolin in 2006, died by lethal injection in Oklahoma. It was the 25th and final U.S. execution this year.

• Dec 19, 2024

Indiana conducts first execution in 15 years, puts quadruple killer to death

An Indiana man, Joseph Corcoran, convicted of killing four people including his brother and his sister's fiancé decades ago was put to death, without any independent witness, marking the state's first execution in 15 years.

• Dec 18, 2024

Death sentence upheld for tycoon — unless she pays $9 billion

Truong My Lan was convicted of swindling money from Saigon Commercial Bank (SCB) and sentenced to death for fraud totaling $27 billion.

• Dec 3, 2024

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