Alabama death row inmate Demetrius Frazier’s final words revealed as he’s executed for 1991 murder
Demetrius Frazier became the fourth inmate in the US to be put to death by the method as he served his sentence for the 1991 murder of Pauline Brown at the Holman Correctional Facility. Frazier, 52, was convicted of capital murder for breaking into Pauline Brown’s Birmingham apartment and raping her at gunpoint before killing her when he was 19.
Texas death row inmate’s final words before execution are revealed
The execution was the second this year in the U.S. and the first of four scheduled in Texas over the next three months, according to the Associated Press. Steven Lawayane Nelson, 37, was executed via lethal injection and was pronounced dead at 6:50pm CST at the Texas state penitentiary in Huntsville.
Death Row inmate's haunting last words just before execution for pastor's murder
Steven Lawayne Nelson was convicted of murder after suffocating a pastor in his own church during a robbery, as well as beating the church secretary, has been put to death overnight
Death row inmate’s chilling last words for warden before lethal injection revealed
Steven Lawayne Nelson, 37, was convicted for the 2011 killing of Rev. Clint Dobson and put to death on Wednesday.
Texas death row inmate executed by lethal injection gives chilling last message
Steven Lawayne Nelson, 37, was killed via lethal injection on Wednesday evening - the second execution in the country this year.
Bondi seeks to reverse Biden death row commutations, accuses former president of 'undermining' justice system
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi announced she will direct the DOJ to pursue the death penalty at the state level against the ...
Prisoner whose case led to Iowa's rejection of death penalty dies in prison
Sentenced to death for killing two children in 1963, Leon Tice's sentence was commuted a month before Iowa abolished capital ...
Luigi Mangione's defense team adds death penalty expert in case of slain UnitedHealthcare CEO
A federal judge in New York on Tuesday appointed a death penalty expert to the defense team of Luigi Mangione, the man ...
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How did a Harris County man spend nearly half-a-century on death row without being executed?
Clarence Jordan has been a death row inmate for 47 years, yet his execution was never carried out. Jordan, now 68, was convicted of the 1977 murder and robbery of Houston grocery store worker, Joe ...
Oklahoma board denies clemency for man on death row, clears path for March execution
An Oklahoma board has rejected clemency for a man sentenced to die for fatally shooting a woman during a 2005 home-invasion ...
Idaho’s push to execute death row prisoners by firing squad clears House, heads to Senate
This is not in any way lessening due process for those who are convicted and are facing the death penalty,” said Rep. Bruce Skaug, R-Nampa, the bill’s lead sponsor.
Should arsonist get death penalty if people die in wildfire? California Supreme Court to decide
The Supreme Court of California met in Sacramento on Wednesday to hear oral arguments in the case of an arsonist sentenced to death.
Oklahoma death row inmate Wendell Arden Grissom denied clemency
The Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board on Wednesday voted 4-1 to deny clemency to a death row inmate who said last month he is ...
Indonesia hands over French death row prisoner for repatriation
Indonesia has handed over to French authorities a man on death row for drug offences who will start his return to his home ...
Clemency denied for death row inmate
A death penalty date for Wendell Grissom will stand after the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board denied him clemency on ...
Madeline Soto update: Stephan Sterns files motion to strike death penalty in murder case
Stephan Sterns' lawyers file a motion to strike the death penalty, citing a violation of his fundamental right to life.
Luigi Mangione's free-of-charge death penalty lawyer also repped WTC bomber Ramzi Yousef
The man accused of murdering UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson gets a free death penalty expert under federal law and will ...