Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed 15 death warrants this year in the state with the second-largest death row population.

Harold Wayne Nichols declined to choose between the electric chair and lethal injection for his Dec. 11 execution.

Littlejohn and his accomplice, Glenn Bethany, got away with only a few hundred dollars from the Root-N-Scoot convenience store in south Oklahoma City on June 19, 1992. Littlejohn was 20 years old at ...

Ohio's death penalty law is in limbo. Supporters and critics agree on one thing: the status quo isn't working.

After three executions in less than a year – ending a nearly 15-year pause in Indiana’s use of capital punishment – it’s not clear when the state will carry out another. Five men remain on Indiana’s ...

Ohio passed a law in 2021 that exempted people with serious mental illnesses from being executed. Nine people have been removed from death row, with 25 cases still pending. Some death row inmates have ...

President Donald Trump suggested on Tuesday that his administration will pursue the death penalty for anyone who kills another person in Washington, D.C. Trump's remarks also come amid his deployment ...

Marcelle Waldon's sentencing for the 2020 murders of a former Lakeland city commissioner and her husband is set for January 6. A jury previously recommended the death penalty in an 11-1 ... Lakeland ...