Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty, is a legal sentence in which a person is put to death by the state as a punishment for the crime they were convicted of. Death row refers to the section of a prison that houses inmates sentenced to death.
A judge sentences Wade Wilson after the jury recommended the death penalty for the "heinous, atrocious and cruel” murders of two women. More
August 27, 2024
Juror #12 in the case against Chad Daybell opens up to Court TV about the trial. She said deliberations were particularly difficult. More
June 4, 2024
Kathy Kleiner Rubin spoke to Court TV about surviving an attack by Ted Bundy and the trial's upcoming 45th anniversary. More
May 29, 2024
Bryan Kohberger is accused of breaking into an off-campus home near the University of Idaho in November and fatally stabbing four students. More
August 18, 2023
Richard Glossip's execution had been scheduled for later this month for his role in a 1997 murder-for-hire plot. More
May 5, 2023
Florida has ramped up executions under Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, with a man known as the “ninja killer” set to die for the 1989 slayings of a... More
April 12, 2023
Bill that would allow Idaho to execute condemned inmates by firing squad heads to governor's desk after passing Legislature on with veto-proof majority. More
March 20, 2023
Gary Green is set to receive a lethal injection for the deaths of his estranged wife, Lovetta Armstead, and her 6-year-old daughter, Jazzmen Montgomery. More
March 7, 2023
Missouri governor said he will not halt the execution of Raheem Taylor, who faces lethal injection for killing his girlfriend and her 3 children. More
February 6, 2023
Tennessee judge rules that video detailing the treatment of death row inmate Henry Hodges, who cut off his penis while on suicide watch, be made... More
January 18, 2023
Oklahoma executed Scott James Eizember, who was convicted of killing an older couple and committing other crimes. More
January 12, 2023
Prosecutors say Robert Fratta organized the murder-for-hire plot of his estranged wife amid a contentious divorce and custody battle. More
January 10, 2023
SCOUTS refuses to hear appeals of the Carr brothers, who were sentenced to death for fatal shootings in a soccer field known as the Wichita... More
January 9, 2023
South Carolina's highest court will hear arguments on whether a newly organized firing squad or the old electric chair are legal ways to execute inmates. More
January 5, 2023
Amber McLaughlin was convicted of first-degree murder in 2006. A judge sentenced McLaughlin to death after a jury deadlocked on the sentence. More
January 3, 2023
Gabriel Hall, 29, is awaiting execution by lethal injection after being convicted of murdering a Texas A&M professor. More
December 30, 2022
Thomas Edwin Loden Jr., who pleaded guilty to raping and killing 16-year-old Leesa Marie Gray, was pronounced dead at 6:12 p.m. More
December 14, 2022
Kevin Johnson's lawyers agree he killed William McEntee but contend in appeal to MO Supreme Court that he got a death sentence partly because he's Black. More
November 29, 2022
Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey seeks pause in executions, orders review of the state capital punishment system after third failed lethal injection. More
November 21, 2022
Oklahoma executed Richard Stephen Fairchild for the torture slaying of his girlfriend’s son, 3-year-old Adam Broomhall, in 1993. More
November 17, 2022
TX inmate Stephen Barbee, seeking to stop his execution over religious freedom violation and indifference to medical needs, is scheduled to die tonight. More
November 16, 2022
Kevin Johnson, who was sentenced to death for killing a co in a fit of rage over his brother's death, asks U.S. Supreme Court to... More
November 10, 2022
Oklahoma appeals court denies death row inmate Richard Glossip's request for a hearing to prove his innocence in the beating death of Glossip's boss. More
November 10, 2022
Attorneys for Tennessee death row inmate Byron Black told a state appeals court he should not be executed because he is intellectually disabled. More
November 8, 2022
Scott Peterson has been moved off death row more than two years after the California Supreme Court overturned his death sentence for killing his pregnant... More
November 4, 2022
Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt grants another temporary reprieve to death row inmate Richard Glossip, pushing scheduled execution back until Feb. 2023. More
November 3, 2022
Tennessee death row inmate Henry Hodges cut off his own penis after slitting his wrists and asking to be put on suicide watch, his attorney... More
October 27, 2022
Scott Peterson was moved off death row over 2 years after CA's Supreme Court overturned his death sentence for killing his pregnant wife and unborn... More
October 24, 2022
Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board rejects request to recommend clemency for death row inmate Richard Fairchild, who killed girlfriend's 3-year-old son. More
October 12, 2022
Divided Supreme Court rejects Black Texas death row inmate Andre Thomas' appeal; he argued he didn't get a fair trial. More
October 11, 2022
