Roy Lee Ward, 52, was sentenced to death in 2007 for the July 11, 2001, rape and murder of a 15-year-old girl in the southern ...

Next month, the state of Florida will officially be allowed to use new means of executing prisoners on death row — with some ...

A 79-year-old Mississippi man who had been on death row for nearly 50 years has been executed by lethal injection, one of two ...

Mississippi is set to carry out its 20th execution by lethal injection as Richard Jordan, who's sat on death row for 48 years ...

Twenty-four men have died by court-ordered execution so far this year in the U.S., and five other people are scheduled to be put to death in four states during the remainder of 2025.

A man sentenced to death for murder in the state of Florida was executed late Tuesday, one of two executions in the United ...

For the past five years, no more than 24 executions occurred annually — but 2025 is already near that mark, with more ...

A court sentenced Ralph Leroy Menzies to death in 1988 for kidnapping, robbing and murdering Maurine Hunsaker, a married ...

Between 2021 and 2023, 100% of all executions in the U.S. were done by lethal injection. In the last year and a half, 16% have involved other methods.

Those executions marked the first by firing squad in the United States since 2010 and only the fourth and fifth using that method in modern U.S. history. (The others were in Utah in 1977 and 1996.) ...