Former Texas death row inmate John Henry Ramirez’s story is told in the documentary short, “I Am Ready, Warden,” which is up for an Academy Award this Sunday. The Houston attorney who won ...

Utah killer Ronnie Lee Gardner opted to be executed by a firing squad when he was sentenced to death and he gave a strange answer when asked why.

An 81-year-old Louisiana death row inmate died Saturday, several weeks before he was scheduled to be put to death for his young stepson’s murder in what would have been one of the state’s ...

Japan carried out its first executions in two years on Dec. 21 by hanging three death row inmates, one of them a mass murderer, in Tokyo and Osaka Prefecture. Justice Minister Yoshihisa Furukawa ...

Arizona is set to carry out its first execution since 2022. Death row inmate Aaron Gunches is set to die by lethal injection ...