All news on the topic: Death row

Tennessee death row inmate Harold Wayne Nichols on Monday opted not to choose between the electric chair and lethal injection for his December 11 execution, resulting in the state defaulting to lethal injection.

Anthony Boyd, 54, has been executed by nitrogen gas in Alabama for his role in the 1993 murder of Gregory Huguley, who was burned alive over a $200 cocaine debt.

Sonia ‘Sunny’ Jacobs was exonerated of murder after 17 years and later married an Irish man

89-year-old Japanese man Iwao Hakamada, who spent nearly half a century on death row before being acquitted, has been awarded $1.45 million in compensation — a record amount.

In a shocking move, two death row inmates have rejected President Joe Biden’s commutation of their sentences.

Alan Miller, 59, second person in US to be executed via controversial technique, shook and trembled on gurney

America's oldest death row inmate Walter Moody enjoyed a lavish 2,100-calorie dinner surrounded by friends before being administered a lethal injection and suffering an agonizing death

73-year-old killer Thomas Creech spent nearly an hour strapped on a table in an Idaho execution chamber as medical members poked and probbed his body trying to find a vein to end his life

A Philadelphia inmate was exonerated after serving 30 years on death row for a crime he insists he did not commit — new evidence was presented that all but proved his innocence

A man who killed his former girlfriend three decades ago is set to be put to death in March by lethal injection in what would be Georgia's first execution in more than four years

Kim Kardashian wrote to her millions of followers on Instagram saying that she believed Ivan Cantu was "an innocent man" following his execution by lethal injection in Texas

Ivan Cantu was denied a special last meal of his choosing before he was executed in Texas for murder and theft, although he claimed he was innocent all the way up to his death

Death row killer Ivan Cantu, who was convicted in 2001 for the 2000 murders of his cousin and his cousin's girlfriend in Texas, was put to death on Wednesday despite pushes from Kim Kardashian to stay the execution

The execution of convicted serial killer Thomas Eugene Creech was halted in Idaho after the medical team couldn't locate a vein for an IV to administer the lethal drugs

A Texas inmate scheduled for execution tonight has had a number of Catholic groups speak out on his behalf, even capturing the attention of Kim Karadashian

WARNING: ARTICLE CONTAINS CONTENT SOME MAY FIND DISTRESSING. As lawmakers in South Carolina contemplate using the electric chair for executions, one doctor has shared chilling details of what happens to the body

Professor Jon Yorke, Director of the Centre for Human Rights at Birmingham City University, described the execution of Kenneth Smith as a 'bad day for humanity'

Dr Joel Zivot from Emory University School of Medicine spoke to The Mirror and explained what actually happens to the body during a lethal injection death including "drowning in your own blood"

Lawyers for South Carolina death row inmates are challenging the use of the electric chair and firing squad as cruel and unusual punishments, along with a law aimed at resuming lethal injections

The spiritual advisor for convicted hitman Kenneth Eugene Smith accompanied him into the chamber, where he witnessed what he called 'the most horrific thing' he'd ever seen done to another human

Alabama's Attorney General, Steve Marshall, issued a live-streamed statement in addition to the written statement after outrage was sparked over the 'shocking' execution of Kenneth Smith

Terry Raybon, warden of William C. Holman Correctional Facility, oversaw the death of Kenneth Smith despite being sacked following a scathing report from the Alabama Department of Public Safety

Kenneth Smith is scheduled to be executed today in Alabama despite horrific warnings raised about the efficiency of a never-before-used method to put him to death

Kenneth Smith has become the first-ever inmate to be killed by nitrogen gas after Alabama state officials used a gas mask to replace breathable air with nitrogen, depriving him of oxygen