Thirty-five men have died by court-ordered executions in the U.S. so far this year, including one early Friday, with seven others scheduled to be put to death later this month. The total for 2025 ...

Executions rose dramatically in the U.S. this year, and the Gulf South played a key role, a new report shows. While Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama all put people to death, Alabama was in a group ...

Richard Randolph, a man who was convicted of sexually assaulting and killing his manager at a convenience store in 1988, was executed in Florida on Thursday night. It was the 17th death sentence ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — While Ohio has joined a few other states in pausing executions, the number of people put to death nationwide so far this year has hit a 15-year high. A handful of states have suddenly ...

There is, of course, something odd about using the word dignity to describe what happens when the state kills one of its ...

The Florida context from Florida Phoenix: Three death warrants are pending in Florida as of this writing, for Norman M. Grim Jr. in the 1998 rape and murder of his neighbor in Escambia County; Bryan ...

MIAMI — John S. Koch, a radio reporter in North Florida, has been witnessing state executions since the serial killer Ted Bundy’s in 1989, not missing one in nearly 37 years. He has never been busier.

It has varied over the decades, as public opinion sways for and against it. Hangings were frequent in colonial times, but by the mid-1800s some states had abolished the death penalty altogether. In ...

Nevada death row inmate Scott Raymond Dozier confers with Lori Teicher, a federal public defender involved in his case, during a Thursday, Aug. 17, 2017, appearance in Clark County District Court in ...