Editor's note: This database contains descriptions of violent crimes. There are 113 people sitting on Ohio's death row. Some were sentenced to death decades ago, for murders committed in the 1980s and ...

The Mississippi Supreme Court denied a last-minute emergency petition to stay the execution of death row inmate Charles Ray Crawford. Crawford's attorneys argued his original trial lawyers improperly ...

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 ...

Convicted triple murderer Byron Black was executed by lethal injection on August 5 at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville, Tennessee, USA ...

As of 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 14, the U.S. Supreme Court has yet to issue a ruling on Mississippi death row inmate Charles Ray Crawford's petition to halt his scheduled execution. Crawford's execution ...

Kwame Ajamu spent three years on Ohio's death row and 28 years in prison for a 1975 Cleveland murder he didn't commit. Ajamu, his brother and his friend are among 11 death row exonerees in Ohio. Ajamu ...

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 ...

Trigger Warning: The article contains details of murder. Reader discretion is advised. Christa Gail Pike, the only woman on Tennessee’s death row, has been scheduled to be executed next year. The ...

Eight federal inmates whose death sentences were commuted by former President Joe Biden shortly before he left office have been moved to a notorious federal supermax prison in Colorado. The inmates ...