The state is accused of unfairly favoring some prisoners over others. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit has revived a lawsuit by some Georgia death row prisoners alleging the state is ...

As Brenda Andrew sat quietly in an Oklahoma courtroom, a prosecutor held up a pair of her thong underwear for jurors. Would a grieving widow really wear such a sexy undergarment, he asked them? The ...

A new murder trial is due to begin in September for Richard Glossip, the former Oklahoma inmate who spent decades on the state's death row and was nearly executed three times before the Supreme Court ...

Dusty Ray Spencer, the oldest inmate sentenced to die in Florida's modern history, is set to be executed later today. Spencer, now 74, was convicted of killing his wife, Karen, 34 years ago in Orange ...

A 74-year-old Florida man was executed on Thursday for his conviction in the 1992 fatal stabbing of his wife, making him the oldest inmate in modern state history to be put to death. Dusty Ray Spencer ...

Three American inmates are set to be executed on Wednesday and Thursday in what stands to become the deadliest week for the death penalty in the U.S. so far this year. Arizona is set to execute Leroy ...

Florida executed a 74-year-old death row inmate on Thursday, making him the oldest person put to death in the state’s modern history. According to Fox News , Dusty Ray Spencer was pronounced dead at 6 ...

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When Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine called on lawmakers to abolish the state's death penalty last week, he wouldn’t tell reporters if he would spare any of the more than 100 people on death row. Three weeks ...

The host of “The Last 12 Weeks” shares surprising data on executions. By Maurice Chammah Hi there, In “The Last 12 Weeks,” one of the more surprising facts about David Wood’s case is just how long ...

Netflix’s June 2026 documentary Maternal Instinct has reignited public interest in one of the most disturbing crimes in recent Texas history: the 2020 killing of pregnant 21-year-old Reagan ...