On January 31, 2025, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk, raised concerns in relation to reports of summary executions of civilians allegedly carried out by militias allied with ...

The federal government will no longer use pentobarbital in executions due to concerns of "unnecessary pain and suffering," a decision made less than one month after Tennessee announced it would be ...

Alabama executed Demetrius Frazer by nitrogen gas for the murder of 41-year-old Pauline Brown in Birmingham, Alabama in November 1991. Alabama has used nitrogen gas on three other inmates in the ...

The federal government resumed executions in the waning months of the first administration of President Donald J. Trump, when he was engaged in a difficult and ultimately losing campaign for ...

The clock has been reset for a Canadian who has been on death row in Montana for 42 years after state legislators defeated an attempt to resume executions. Ronald Smith, 67, is originally from Red ...

TONIGHT, ANOTHER SOUTH CAROLINA INMATE WAS PUT TO DEATH. THE STATE’S THIRD EXECUTION SINCE SEPTEMBER 2024. 44 YEAR OLD MARION BOWMAN JUNIOR WAS CONVICTED OF MURDER IN THE 2001 SHOOTING DEATH OF ...

South Carolina executed Marion Bowman Jr. by lethal injection on Friday in the first execution in the United States this year. Bowman, who was pronounced dead at 6:27 p.m., was on Death Row for ...

Texas continues to lead other states on capital punishment. But the decline in new death sentences and executions reached a record low. Protesters unload signs and speakers outside of the Texas ...

Texas inmate Cesar Hernandez details the execution day for Ramiro Gonzales in an essay for the Prison Journalism Project.

The United Nations has expressed “alarm” over a sharp rise in reported executions of Ukrainian soldiers captured by Russian armed forces. According to a report published on Monday by the UN ...

A South Carolina inmate was executed on Friday ... looked at his attorney on the other side of the glass in the witness room before looking back up at the ceiling and closing his eyes, opening ...

Two men were killed execution-style in a hail of at least 40 bullets in Philadelphia early Monday as the city celebrated its Super Bowl win, but cops say they haven’t connected the crime to the ...