Capital Punishment

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Florida to Execute 1993 Revenge Killer Following Appeal Denials

Unanimously rejected by Florida’s Supreme Court, his case now awaits a U.S. Supreme Court ruling before today’s execution

Saudi Arabia Breaks Half-Year Execution Record Fueled by Drug Convictions

Alabama Schedules Nitrogen Gas Execution for Geoffrey Todd West on Sept. 25

Mississippi Executes Richard Gerald Jordan, Longest-Serving Death Row Inmate

Florida Executes Thomas Lee Gudinas in State’s Seventh Execution of 2025

Stephen Stanko Put to Death by Lethal Injection in South Carolina

Weinstein Retrial Ends With Mixed Verdict and Mistrial on Final Rape Charge

Oklahoma Executes Convicted Killer John Hanson Following Trump Order

Iran Hangs Abbas Kurkuri Over 2022 Protest Shootings

Alabama Executes Gregory Hunt by Nitrogen Gas for 1988 Murder

Tennessee Executes Oscar Smith Under Revised Lethal Injection Protocol

Texas Executes Matthew Lee Johnson 13 Years After Setting Store Clerk on Fire

Texas Executes Matthew Johnson, Marking Fourth Execution in the State This Year

Indiana Executes Benjamin Ritchie for 2000 Police Officer Murder

South Carolina Firing Squad Execution Deemed Botched After Autopsy Findings

James Osgood Executed for 2010 Rape and Murder in Alabama

South Carolina Executes Mikal Mahdi by Firing Squad, Second Such Execution in Five Weeks

South Carolina Executes Mikal Mahdi by Firing Squad in Rare Use of the Method

South Carolina Executes Second Prisoner by Firing Squad in Less Than a Month

Berlin Memorial Highlights Unresolved Questions in Djamshid Sharmahd Case