Uncertainty surrounds the future of capital punishment in Indiana as costs rise and prosecutors weigh alternatives. Five men remain on death row.

Kwame Ajamu spent 28 years in prison – three on death row – for a Cleveland murder he didn't commit. He's now pushing for ...

Ohio passed a law in 2021 that exempted people with mental illnesses from being executed. Nine inmates have been removed from ...

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

Texas’ highest criminal court on Thursday blocked Robert Roberson’s execution a week before it was set to take place, sending ...

Iran executed six death-row inmates Saturday it alleged carried out attacks in the country's oil-rich southwest on behalf of Israel, the latest prisoners to be put to death in a wave of executions ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran executed six death-row inmates Saturday it alleged carried out attacks in the country’s oil-rich southwest on behalf of Israel, the latest prisoners to be put ...

NBC News’ Lester Holt is dropping a new Dateline podcast on Monday, taking a look at the high-profile death row case of Robert Roberson. Roberson, 58, whose execution was delayed last year, has been ...

Tennessee is preparing to execute a woman for the first time in more than two centuries, after the state’s Supreme Court set the execution date for Christa Gail Pike, the only woman on Tennessee’s ...

Tennessee has scheduled the execution of the only woman on the state's death row. According to USA TODAY, Christa Gail Pike was just 18 years old when she and two others lured romantic rival Colleen ...

If Christa Gail Pike's execution proceeds as planned next year, she will become the first woman put to death in Tennessee since the state began to formally document capital punishment more than a ...

A man convicted of brutally killing a married couple over three decades ago was executed this week - and his last words were as blunt as they come. Victor Tony Jones was put to death by lethal ...