Elaine* spent the final 20 years of her life writing letters to 25 long-term prisoners in the U.S. prison system. Each of the 24 men and the sole woman ...

Trumbull County Prosecutor Dennis Watkins has been fighting for years to continue executions in the state under Ohio’s death ...

As South Carolina prepares to execute a man by firing squad on Friday, here are the ways each state conducts capital punishment, according to Death Penalty Information Center: Georgia, along with ...

Watkins has also written an open letter to Bondi and another directed to Yost in February requesting assistance in restoring ...

The most recent U.S. execution took place Friday, when Brad Sigmon, 67, died by firing squad in South Carolina. Sigmon, who killed his ex-girlfriend’s parents with a baseball bat in 2001, was the ...

Sanders signed the law hours before Louisiana executed its first inmate with the nitrogen gas method. Arkansas is now the ...

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Six men have died by court-ordered execution so far this year in the U.S., and 12 other people are scheduled to be put to death in six states during the remainder of 2025. Today in History: March ...

The other states with scheduled executions this year are Ohio, Tennessee and Texas ... Texas uses lethal injection to execute its death row inmates. Moises Sandoval Mendoza, 41, is scheduled to be ...

OKLAHOMA, USA — Six men have died by court-ordered execution so far this year in the U.S., and 12 other people are scheduled to be put to death in six states during the remainder of 2025.