WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled for a Black death row inmate from Mississippi who claims there was ...

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Sevier County siblings Tommy Griffin and Connie Branham were killed in grisly murders in East Tennessee in the early 1990s. A Blount County Jury sent Gary Wayne Sutton, and his uncle James ...

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The number of people killed in state-sanctioned executions worldwide rose to a 44-year high in 2025, according to a new ...

South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson said Friday that his office may pursue the death penalty when it retries Alex Murdaugh in the 2021 murder of his son and wife. Subscribe to read this story ...

Texas carried out its 600th execution since 1982. Here is what happened in the final hours before Edward Busby Jr. was put to death.

A lawyer for Richard Glossip said the ruling provided a step forward in his client’s efforts to escape a “decades-long nightmare” in a case that has faced substantial criticism. By Hannah Ziegler ...

The Texas execution chamber in Huntsville. Edward Busby, convicted of capital murder in Tarrant County, became the 600th inmate to be executed in Texas since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976.

A former death row inmate who has been so close to execution that he's had three last meals has been released after nearly 30 years behind bars. Oklahoma County District Judge Natalie Mai on May 14 ...