The annual number of death row inmates executed in the U.S. is set to nearly double by the end of this year. In 2024, 25 death row inmates were executed, according to the Death Penalty Information ...

Gov. Kevin Stitt has the final say. The execution is scheduled for Nov. 13 at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester.

A death row inmate in Oklahoma was preparing for his scheduled execution Thursday when Gov. Kevin Sitt spared his life. The governor announced his decision to commute Tremane Wood's sentence from ...

Tennessee death row inmate Harold Wayne Nichols declined to choose between the electric chair and lethal injection before his Dec. 11 execution. Nichol declined to make his choice Nov. 10, a statement ...

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — An electrocardiogram monitoring the heart of a Tennessee inmate executed by lethal injection in August showed “sustained cardiac activity” nearly two minutes after Byron Black ...