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Tennessee says it is ready to resume death row executions in 2025. The Department of Corrections announced it will use a drug for lethal injections.

A California judge denies a petition for release or retrial but the legal team vows to continue to fight the conviction ...

Tokyo (Jiji Press)–Chisako Kakehi, a 78-year-old death-row inmate known as a “black widow” who was ... Kakehi was found lying on her back at her cell on Thursday morning and was later confirmed dead ...

A Japanese death-row inmate, dubbed the "Black Widow" after she used cyanide to kill her elderly lovers, has died in a ...

"A few days before his execution, Brandon’s family visited him for the last time. After the visit, Brandon told me there was ...

Joe Biden’s commutations for 37 of 40 people on federal death row brought relief for those who feared another killing spree ...

A Japanese death-row inmate, dubbed the “Black Widow” after she used ... “Her death was confirmed at a hospital on Thursday” after she was found lying in her cell at the Osaka detention centre, a ...

President Joe Biden is commuting the sentences of 37 of the 40 people on federal death row. He's converting their punishments ...

President Joe Biden commuted the federal death sentences of 37 inmates Monday, including three North Carolina inmates ...

Daniel "Homer" Troya and Ricardo “Ricky” Sanchez, Jr., both 41, were among 37 condemned men whose federal death sentences ...