During his final six months as president, Donald Trump’s administration carried out an unprecedented execution spree, killing 13 people. When President Joe Biden replaced Trump in 2021, he became the …
Christopher Vialva’s dying request before the federal government executed him in 2020 was that his mother help other family members of the condemned navigate the process. Before he died, Vialva …
MCALESTER, Okla. — Linda Wood was not in the courtroom when her son Jake Wood was sentenced. She had already seen her youngest son, Tremane Wood, go to death row …
McALESTER, Okla. (AP) — Oklahoma executed a man Thursday for his role in the 1992 shooting death of a convenience store owner after the governor rejected a recommendation from the …
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina put Freddie Owens to death Friday as the state restarted executions after an unintended 13-year pause because prison officials couldn’t get the drugs needed …
In 2016, the Democratic Party became the country’s first major political party to formally call for abolishing the death penalty. The party’s platform that year, released in the aftermath of …
The mother of the boys was also shot in the hand An Ohio father read from the Bible, told his children he loved them, and made a cryptic call to …
US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Friday scrapped a plea agreement with 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, just two days after the announcement of a deal that reportedly would have …
A table fitted with restraints before an execution at Huntsville Unit in Texas (Image: Getty) Moments before her children’s killer was to be executed, the grieving mother confronted prison chaplain …
McALESTER, Okla. (AP) — Oklahoma executed a man Thursday who was convicted of kidnapping, raping and killing his 7-year-old former stepdaughter in 1984. Richard Rojem, 66, received a three-drug lethal …