death row

Murderer Christa Pike’s lawyer said she has been walking around her hospital room after surviving two botched lethal injections on September 30 in Tennessee.

Tennessee death row inmate Christa Pike — who is now in the hospital after a botched execution — was given the all-female lethal injection team she had requested, her attorneys revealed on Thursday.

The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals halted the execution of Robert Leslie Roberson, III, who is currently housed on death row in the state’s Polunsky Unit. The court sent the case back to the East Texas Piney Woods trial court in Palestine to consider Roberson’s “new” or “junk” science claim. Roberson’s execution was set for October 16, 2025.

The execution date has been set for Christa Pike, Tennessee’s only female prisoner on death row, according to reports.

Two prisoners whose death sentences President Joe Biden (D) commuted do not want to accept his action, NBC News reported on Monday.

A convicted killer has asked to go free after President Joe Biden commuted his death sentence to life in prison without parole.

President Joe Biden commuted the death sentences of 37 of 40 federal inmates on death row on Monday — including cold-blooded murderers who had killed entire families, and predators who had slaughtered innocent children.

President Joe Biden is reportedly considering commuting the sentences of men on the federal death row list, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal.

Democrats on Capitol Hill are begging President Joe Biden, set to leave office next month, to commute the death sentences of 40 federal inmates, which includes one of the Boston Marathon bombers, child killers, mass shooters, and those convicted for brutally murdering women.

John Jacobson Jr., aka the “Yacht Killer,” finally received a taxpayer sex-change surgery due to policies Kamala Harris helped put in place.

A California death row inmate was killed by fellow prisoners on Thursday, the state’s Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said.

Officials in Edmond, Oklahoma, have agreed to pay more than $7 million to a man exonerated after spending 48 years behind bars for a robbery and deadly shooting in 1974.

Experts with the United Nations are concerned about the execution of an Alabama man being carried out by nitrogen hypoxia.

A man was executed Friday in Alabama after he brutally murdered an elderly woman in 2001 inside her home.

Progressive Democrat Rep. Cori Bush (MO) faced backlash online after lamenting the recent execution of Amber (previously “Scott”) McLaughlin, a biological man identifying as a transgender woman who was convicted of brutally raping and killing his ex-girlfriend.

A Philadelphia man who was cleared of wrongdoing for several murder cases after spending 25 years on death row was fatally shot while attending a funeral.

A California judge denied convicted murderer Scott Peterson a new trial for the 2002 Christmas Eve murders of his wife and unborn son.

A death row inmate cut off his penis after slicing his wrists with a hidden razor and asking to be put on suicide watch, the Associated Press reported.

After 26 years on Alabama’s death row, Joe Nathan James was executed Thursday night despite the objections of the victim’s family.

Texas’ oldest death row inmate was put to death Thursday for killing a policeman almost 32 years ago as people gathered to support the fallen officer.

South Carolina has set a date for its first death row execution since renovating its Death Chamber to accommodate death by firing squad.

The South Carolina Department of Corrections announced Friday that it is now ready to conduct death row inmate executions by firing squad.

South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster (R) signed a bill on Friday forcing death row inmates to choose between death by electric chair or the recently formed firing squad.

I assume it’s overkill to continue listing the evidence against death row inmate Kevin Cooper, duly convicted of committing a quadruple murder back in 1983.

The Sri Lankan Parliament welcomed a convicted murderer previously sentenced to death as a lawmaker on Tuesday after a court ruled that he was legally entitled to serve.

Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott has written a letter to authorities in Texas advocating for the release of death row inmate Julius Jones.

Hollywood celebrities including Kim Kardashian, Rihanna, and Susan Sarandon are rushing to the defense of Texas death row inmate Rodney Reed, who faces execution for the 1996 homicide of Stacey Stites, a 19-year-old woman who was found raped and strangled.

CLAIM: Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) “blocked evidence that would have freed an innocent man from death row until the courts forced her to do so.” VERDICT: Mostly true.

CAIRO — After years of anxiously waiting in cramped prison cells, appointments with the noose can come fast to the many on Egypt’s death row.

California voters rejected a repeal of the death penalty as recently as 2016, in the same election where Hillary Clinton carried the state over Donald Trump by more than 3.4 million votes.