At least seven death row cases have been overturned due to inadequate representation or malicious prosecution. Mississippi has executed 372 people since becoming a state, with 23 executions since the ...

Scott Panetti, whose Supreme Court case protects the seriously mentally ill from execution, died of natural causes on death row in Texas. Texas spent 30 years attempting to execute Panetti, despite ...

Tennessee is preparing to execute a woman for the first time in more than two centuries, after the state’s Supreme Court set the execution date for Christa Gail Pike, the only woman on Tennessee’s ...

Chadwick Willacy is set to be executed in Florida for a 1990 murder, but attorneys question the state's lethal injection protocol. Here's what to know.

The US state of Tennessee may soon carry out its first execution of a woman in over 200 years after its Supreme Court gave the green light to carry out the sentence handed down to Christa Gail Pike.

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The annual number of death row inmates executed in the U.S. is set to ...

Bryan Jennings is scheduled to be executed for the 1979 rape and murder of a six-year-old girl. Florida has executed 15 inmates in 2025, more than any other state. Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed more ...

HOUSTON — Nearly 70 years after a Texas Black man was executed in a case that prosecutors now say was based on false evidence and was riddled with racial bias, officials have declared that he was ...