In 2025 the United States executed 47 prisoners on death row, the highest number in 16 years. This figure makes Donald Trump ...

A federal judge has denied a legal attempt, for now, to prevent the U.S. government from transferring death row inmates whose sentences were commuted by then-President Joe Biden to the "Supermax" in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In December 2024, Joe Biden, then in the last weeks of his presidency, made a final move to block the incoming Trump ...

STARKE, Fla. — A condemned man on Florida’s death row is awaiting to hear his fate from the U.S. Supreme Court. Frank Athen Walls was convicted of killing a couple during a home invasion in Okaloosa ...

Ronald Heath's execution is set for 6 p.m. on Feb. 10. This marks the first death-row inmate to be executed this year in Florida.

The Justice Department has set new dates to begin executing federal death-row inmates following a monthslong legal battle over the plan to resume the executions for the first time since 2003. Attorney ...

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The Mississippi Supreme Court rejected a successive post-conviction appeal by death row inmate Xavier Brown, who was ...

>> LOOK AT THIS BEHIND US. THIS IS THE NUMBER OF DEATH PENALTY EXECUTIONS IN OUR COUNTRY SINCE 1977. YOU SEE THE LATE 90'S. THAT WAS THE PEAK. BUT THEN A GRADUAL DECLINE. >> THAT IS UNTIL NOW. THIS UP ...

A federal court has upheld the conviction for the State of Oklahoma’s only female Death Row inmate, according to court documents. Brenda Andrew was sentenced to death in 2004 for the murder of her ...

Florida has executed 19 people in 2025, a new state record set under Gov. Ron DeSantis. The number of executions in Florida this year is nearly four times higher than any other state. DeSantis has ...