A new report by the Death Plenty Information Center finds that new death sentences are on the decline in the U.S. in 2025, ...

Reforms have been implemented in Texas and other states to avoid mistakes that send innocent people to death row. However, ...

Florida is gearing up to break its execution record in July 2025, with plans for nine executions, marking the highest number ...

The Rev. Jeff Hood has witnessed 11 executions: four in Oklahoma, three in Alabama, two in Texas, one in Missouri and one in Florida.  The Rev. Jeff Hood is “determined to let people know you’re ...

For the past five years, no more than 24 executions occurred annually — but 2025 is already near that mark, with more scheduled in the months ahead.

Gudinas was found guilty in 1995 of the rape and murder of Michelle McGrath. The court heard that the young woman's body, bearing signs of severe trauma and sexual assault, was discovered in an ...

More than 100 Florida faith leaders signed a letter pleading with Gov. Ron DeSantis to pause the fast pace of executions in ...

Richard Gerald Jordan, 79, was executed at the Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman. He was one of several people on Mississippi's death row suing the state over its three-drug execution ...