In most of the country, executions are a thing of the past. But one state has been carrying them out at a record pace.

The Islamic Republic of Iran has accelerated its executions of dissidents and activists, with the true number of victims likely obscured by the regime’s internet censorship and blackout. Ever since ...

Florida is on track this year to break its own record with 20 executions, leading all states by far in carrying out the death penalty. The state accounted for about 40% of all executions nationwide ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Georgia Supreme Court ruled that COVID-19-focused for public access that had, temporarily, stalled executions for nine ...

Part of a deal protecting 9 inmates doesn’t bar their executions anymore, justices say. Georgia Supreme Court Justice Carla Wong McMillian — pictured in April 2024 — wrote a unanimous opinion Tuesday ...

Ms. DeLiberato has represented defendants in death penalty cases for nearly 20 years. Last month, I walked into Riverbend Maximum Security Institution to watch the State of Tennessee kill my client, ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A federal judge on Thursday ruled that execution by nitrogen gas does not violate the constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment, rejecting an Alabama inmate’s claim ...

For more than an hour, Tony Carruthers lay strapped to an execution gurney in Tennessee's death chamber as his executioners struggled to find a vein. They tried his arms, shoulders, feet, chest and ...

NASHVILLE, TN (WSMV) - Attorneys with ACLU Tennessee are calling on Gov. Bill Lee to extend the execution reprieve for Tony Carruthers to all executions in the state after the botched lethal injection ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - A Tennessee death row inmate has at least one more year to live after the state “botched” his execution Thursday morning. Tony Carruthers was scheduled to die by lethal ...

Amnesty International released a report Monday stating that the number of executions globally hit its highest number since 1981. The group condemned use of the death penalty to create a climate of ...

The ruthless Iranian regime executed over 2,100 people in 2025, more than doubling the number of those put to death the year before — and pushing the total number of executions across the globe to a ...