Forty-four death row inmates across the U.S. have been executed this year, reaching a level not seen in more than a decade.

AI-generated summary reviewed by our newsroom. Read our AI Policy. Death row exonerees urge North Carolina to abolish executions after 19 years. Over 100 inmates challenge death sentences citing ...

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 ...

I first met William Noguera in June 2013 when he was on San Quentin’s Death Row in San Quentin, California. I was led into a cage where there was a small table and two chairs among other cages with ...

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 ...

This story is part of a series examining the death penalty in Texas. You can read more about the lives of death row inmates at the Polunsky Unit here and a first-person account from a reporter who ...

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 ...