Georgia executes death row inmate Willie Pye for the 1993 murder of Alicia Lynn Yarbrough

The state of Georgia on Wednesday executed death row inmate Willie Pye, who was convicted and sentenced to die for the 1993 murder of Alicia Lynn Yarbrough. The execution – Georgia’s first in ... Read More

She Was Set to Be Executed in Daughter's Death. Now Prosecutors and Judge Say It Was Accident, Not Murder

Melissa Elizabeth Lucio has been on death row since 2008 after being convicted of murdering her 2-year-old daughter ... Read More

Missouri death row inmate Brian Dorsey executed after Supreme Court rejects bids to intervene

Washington — The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to halt the execution of Missouri death row inmate Brian Dorsey, who was convicted of murdering his cousin and her husband nearly 20 years ago. Read More

Black death row inmates suffer more botched lethal injections than white inmates: Report

A report says Black inmates sentenced to death by lethal injection suffered a botched procedure at higher rates than white prisoners. In the analysis released this month, researchers at ... Read More

Death row inmate who killed five, including pregnant woman, says he wants to be executed

An Alabama death row inmate has requested to be executed in order to help the families of his victims get closure.Derrick Dearman, 35, made the admission to CNN during a phone interview from the ... Read More

Death row killer's chilling final four words before he was executed for brutal double murder

Michael DeWayne Smith, 41, was executed by lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester on Thursday after being convicted of two murders in 2002 ... Read More

Death row killer executed for brutal double murder gave chilling four-word answer as final speech

The death row inmate was convicted of shooting to death two women in two separate incidents ... Smith was the fourth inmate to be executed in the US in 2024. Ivan Cantu, the second person executed ... Read More

Georgia executes Willie James Pye for 1993 murder of ex-girlfriend

March 20 (UPI) --Georgia late Wednesday executed death row ... women in two separate incidents near the city's Venice canals last week. U.S. News // 13 hours ago Hunter Biden loses bid to dismiss ... Read More

Georgia death row inmate Willie Pye's calorific last meal before execution revealed

Georgia death row inmate ... plans first execution in years for 'disabled man' who killed ex Georgia has executed 75 men and one woman since the death penalty was reinstated by the US Supreme ... Read More

Oklahoma executes man convicted of double murder

He is the 12th person to be executed in Oklahoma since the state resumed carrying out death penalties in 2021. The nearly seven ... to CBS News, the BBC's media partner in the US. Read More

Oklahoma executes Michael Dewayne Smith, convicted of killing 2 people in 2002

A man convicted of killing two people in Oklahoma more than two decades ago was executed Thursday, marking the state's first ... prisoners on death row in Oklahoma. He was the first executed ... Read More

Serial killer survives his execution after 50 years on death row

It is a problem that has lingered since the United States carried out its first ... been executed in Idaho since 1976, and there are currently eight inmates on the state’s death row ... Read More