Texas and Georgia are each planning to execute inmates within an hour of each other on Wednesday. Alabama is set to carry out an execution the next day.

Supporters urge a Hardin County judge to order a competency hearing for death row inmate Jamal Howard, citing intellectual disability, ahead of his execution date.

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Two death row inmates were executed on Thursday, the first in a series of five scheduled across the United States over a period ...

A Houston man has been on death row for almost 24 years. Now the DNA expert who testified against him says the science never supported it.

There are currently 45 women in the United States that are on death row after they were found guilty of heinous acts, according to the Death Penalty Information Center. While some of the women have made headlines for their crimes and have been catapulted ...