For Charles Victor Thompson, the one constant in his life has been the almost three decades he's spent as Inmate No. 00999306 in a small, isolated prison After 27 years on Texas Death Row, Charles ...

For condemned prisoners in Texas, the final 14 days unfold under a rigidly scripted routine that culminates in the death chamber. The Texas Department of Criminal Justice claims that its execution ...

A death row inmate convicted of a 1997 gas station murder was executed on Thursday while the son of the victim pleaded for his life. Geoffrey Todd West, 50, met his end at William C. Holman ...

Inside the death chamber at the Indiana State Prison in Michigan City. (Photo provided by the Indiana Department of Correction) Gov. Mike Braun denied clemency to death row inmate Roy Lee Ward in an ...

Mississippi is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to deny a request to stop the execution of Charles Ray Crawford. Crawford, on death row for over 30 years, was convicted of the 1993 kidnapping, rape, and ...

Charles Ray Crawford is scheduled for execution in October 2025 for the 1993 kidnapping and murder of a Mississippi college student. Lawyers are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to halt the execution, ...

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 ...