Editor’s note: An Oklahoma judge granted a temporary stay of execution Monday to John Hanson. Find the latest on his case here. Over the next four days, four inmates in four states are scheduled to be ...

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A Florida man who fatally stabbed a married couple during a robbery is scheduled to be executed next month, which could extend the state's record number of inmates put to death in a single year.

This week, two executions are scheduled: Michael Tanzi in Florida for kidnapping and murder, and Mikal Mahdi in South Carolina, who has requested to die by firing squad just five weeks after the state ...

15 MINUTES. CAMERON. YEAH, BACK TO THE BREAKING NEWS THIS MORNING. OKLAHOMA DEATH ROW INMATE TRAMAINE WOOD WAS JUST SAVED FROM EXECUTION AT THE LAST MINUTE. A DRAMATIC MOVE FROM GOVERNOR KEVIN STITT ...

Earlier this month, Florida executed Michael Bell for murdering two people in 1993. He was the eighth person put to death there this year. Bell’s execution would have attracted little attention but ...

INDIANAPOLIS – A federal judge wasn’t swayed by arguments from media groups seeking to witness the execution of a convicted killer. Benjamin Ritchie is set to be executed “before the hour of sunrise” ...

Forty-four death row inmates across the U.S. have been executed this year, reaching a level not seen in more than a decade. The number of death row inmates executed across the U.S. spiked dramatically ...