'Torturous': Botched Tennessee execution sparks US death row debate

A failed execution in Tennessee left death row inmate Tony Carruthers bleeding and moaning, a witness says. Attorneys for ...
AZFamily

Decades on Death Row: Why Arizona’s executions process can take so long

PHOENIX (AZFamily) — This week, the Pinal County attorney announced intentions to seek the death penalty for the man accused of killing Apache Junction Police Officer Gabriel Facio. Even if the ...

SC attorney general joins push to speed up death row appeals process

South Carolina’s attorney general is supporting a federal proposal that would speed up the appeals process for death row inmates. The proposed rule change would make it easier for states ...

AG Wilson joins supports rule to speed up death row review process

Attorney General Alan Wilson has joined a 16-state letter to the U.S. Department of Justice in support of a rule aimed at speeding up death row appeals.The lett ...
CNN

The long road Idaho prosecutors sought to spare the families of Bryan Kohberger’s victims by avoiding a death penalty trial

When the men who murdered Carmen Gayheart were sentenced to death in 1995, her sister, Maria David, thought it might be 12 or 14 years before they were executed. She waited 31. Life went on. David got ...
The Hill

Time is running out for Gov. DeWine to take a side on the death penalty

Ohio is one of America’s most important death penalty “swing states.” Although the ultimate punishment is legal there, no one has been executed in the state since 2018, when Robert Van Hook was put to ...
KSL

Tracking Transparency: The secrecy surrounding Utah's death penalty process

SALT LAKE CITY — Recent changes to state law keep Utahns in the dark when it comes to certain information about the state's death penalty process. As death row inmate Ralph Menzies' attorneys are ...
fox13now

A new bill in the legislature would speed up Utah's death penalty process

SALT LAKE CITY — A bill that would speed up Utah's death penalty process is advancing in the state legislature. On Thursday, the House Law Enforcement & Criminal Justice Committee heard House Bill 495 ...
AOL

Alabama Death Row Inmate Says Three Chilling Final Words Before 20-Minute Execution Using Nitrogen Gas for 1993 Murder

An Alabama death row inmate was executed via a controversial method after uttering three spine-chilling final words, RadarOnline.com can reveal. Todd Boyd, 54, was put to death at the William C.
Los Angeles Times

Bringing the death penalty back to L.A. is politics and hubris, not justice

California has 592 people in prison who have been sentenced to death, the largest population of prisoners awaiting execution of any state. L.A. County Dist. Atty. Nathan Hochman is reversing the ...
WWNO

Death penalty bills aim to refine Louisiana's process, expand execution witness lists

At least three bills in the 2025 legislative session that began Monday touch on capital punishment, aiming to refine processes amid a press by Louisiana officials to carry out more death sentences.