PHOENIX — Aaron Gunches, an inmate on Arizona’s death row, is telling the state Supreme Court he is ready to die. In a hand-written legal brief, Gunches, who had pleaded guilty to the 2002 first ...

An Arizona death row prisoner asked the state’s highest court to skip legal formalities and schedule his execution earlier ...

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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 ...

Marion Bowman Jr. was convicted of murdering Kaylee Martin and setting her body on fire in South Carolina’s Dorchester County.

Tennessee is citing confidentiality laws intended to protect the identities of individuals involved in executions.

Zimbabwe has officially abolished the death penalty after President Emmerson Mnangagwa signed into law a bill on Tuesday ...

Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa — who has not signed death warrants for those facing capital sentences since he came ...

Rejon Taylor, one of the men on federal death row, has told Newsweek he is "overjoyed and grateful" after his death sentence ...

President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of 37 of the 40 prisoners on federal death row. More than 2,000 others remain on ...