Across the country, dozens of organizations connect people on the outside with death row inmates through pen pal programs.

15 MINUTES. CAMERON. YEAH, BACK TO THE BREAKING NEWS THIS MORNING. OKLAHOMA DEATH ROW INMATE TRAMAINE WOOD WAS JUST SAVED FROM EXECUTION AT THE LAST MINUTE. A DRAMATIC MOVE FROM GOVERNOR KEVIN STITT ...

DALLAS — Just one week before he was scheduled to be put to death, the Court of Criminal Appeals blocked Robert Roberson’s execution, sending the case back to trial court. State Representative Lacey ...

Aileen Wuornos, once dubbed the “Damsel of Death” and “Queen of Serial Killers,” remains one of the most notorious figures in U.S. criminal history. Before her execution by lethal injection on October ...

Chuck Thompson has been on Texas Death Row for 27 years and is set to be executed in January. Credit: April Towery For Charles Victor Thompson, the one constant in his life has been the almost three ...

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 ...

At 44 executions and three more on the schedule, 2025 is on track to be the deadliest year on American death rows in more than a decade. Texas has, by far, led the nation in executions since the death ...

Dozens of prisoners who were on federal death row but had their sentences commuted under former President Biden will be moved to supermax prisons, Attorney General Pam Bondi announced Thursday. Biden, ...