Iwao Hakamada, 89, who is believed to have been the world’s longest-serving death row inmate, was exonerated last year of a ...

A Japanese man who spent more than 40 years on death row until he was acquitted last year has been awarded $1.4 million in ...

The nonprofit Apache Stronghold has argued its religious freedom case all the way to the highest court in the land. On Friday, the nine justices are meeting in conference once again, and an answer may ...

The oldest woman on Texas death row is Linda Carty, who will be 67 this year, so no female made our list of 70+. There are only six of women on Texas Death Row*, you can read about Carty and the ...

Diocese of Boise Bishop Peter F. Christensen raised concerns about a “culture of death” and threats to human dignity after Idaho made death by firing squad its primary method of execution for ...

(WOWT) - Nikko Jenkins — the Omaha spree killer who murdered four people in August 2013 ... There are 11 men on death row in Nebraska. The oldest case goes back to 1993 and John Lotter.

As of Feb. 6, 2025, there were 174 people on death row in Texas, seven of whom are women, including Melissa Lucio who was convicted in 2008 of beating to death her 2-year-old daughter. In 2022 ...

and the number of people on death row has dropped by more than half over the past twenty-five years. There are 174 people on Texas’ death row, and seven of them are women.

IT HAS MANY ASKING WHAT IS HUMANE EVEN FOR A PERSON ON DEATH ROW. THERE’S NO WAY TO GAS A LIVING CREATURE IN A WAY THAT ISN’T DISGUSTING. LITIGATORS WITH THE PROMISE FOR JUSTICE INITIATIVE ...

Richard Jordan has been on death row in Mississippi since 1977 for the 1976 kidnapping and murder of Edwina Marter, the wife of a Gulfport bank executive. At 78, Jordan is the oldest prisoner on ...

March 7 (UPI) --For the first time in 15 years, a state has put a person to death by firing ... options on methods of death South Carolina death row inmate chooses firing squad for execution ...

He was the oldest inmate executed by the state. The spokeswoman, Chrysti Shain, said the three-person squad opened fire ... In a final statement read before his death, Sigmon said he wanted ...