Summer Shockley with her father, Lance Shockley during a visit at Potosi Correctional Center, in 2024. Lance Shockley executed on Oct. 14, 2025, for the 2005 murder of a Missouri highway patrolman. Of ...

An evaluation from the Utah Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) says that the death row inmate convicted of the ...

A state-hired blood spatter expert offered testimony Wednesday that further complicated the 50-year-old murder case of ...

Texas has, by far, led the nation in executions since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976. These are the Dallas County ...

On Monday, Zeigler is scheduled to be in an Orange County courtroom to face what is most likely his best and last chance for ...

The Tennessee Supreme Court on Tuesday set execution dates for four people, including the only woman in the state on death row. Christa Pike received the death sentence at age 18 for the 1995 torture ...

Veterans receiving the death penalty continues to be a controversial issue, and 2025 is shaping up to be one of the deadliest years on record for former servicemembers being executed. Based on a new ...

Ohio has not carried out an execution since 2018, creating a de facto moratorium under Gov. Mike DeWine. State lawmakers are at an impasse over whether to abolish capital punishment or authorize new ...

GREENVILLE, S.C. (FOX Carolina) - A judge declared an Upstate man on death row was “competent” to be executed on Friday. In 2003, Steven Bixby killed two law enforcement officers in Abbeville County.

FIRST ON FOX — Eight federal inmates — once on death row for murders, including the killings of fellow prisoners, gang-related stabbings, and the slayings of two campers — have been transferred to a ...

This week’s ruling is yet another chapter in a nearly three-decade legal odyssey that has spotlighted Louisiana’s troubling ...