Ronald Palmer Heath has been put to death for the 1989 killing of Michael Sheridan marking Florida's first execution of 2026.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A South Carolina inmate who spent 42 years on death row has died of natural causes at a prison hospital, according to the state ...

Texas executed Charles Victor Thompson for the double murder of his ex-girlfriend, Dennise Hayslip, and her new boyfriend, Darren Cain, in 1998.

The concept of a "last meal" on death row is widely known, but the final words uttered by condemned individuals are often far more revealing and unsettling. History records a chilling collection of ...

Florida has executed Ronald Heath, who became a murderer when he was 16 and killed two other men when he was released from ...

Kendrick Simpson is a New Orleans native who fled to Oklahoma as a Hurricane Katrina refugee. He's being executed for gunning ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An investigation of a death row inmate found text messages on a contraband cellphone that showed he ordered an inmate beaten last ...

A voting board in Oklahoma decided Wednesday to recommend clemency for Tremane Wood, a death row inmate who is scheduled to receive a lethal injection next week at the state penitentiary in McAlester.

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — UPDATE WEDNESDAY: A Knox County chancellor said Wednesday he'll review - behind closed doors - information sought by a death row inmate about the state's lethal injection drug. By ...

Florida nearly doubled the national average of executions in 2025, with a record-breaking 19 death warrants carried out, according to an annual report released by the Death Penalty Information Center.

A death row inmate in Oklahoma was preparing for his scheduled execution Thursday when Gov. Kevin Sitt spared his life. The governor announced his decision to commute Tremane Wood's sentence from ...

NEW ORLEANS -- A Louisiana man who spent nearly three decades on death row was released on bail Wednesday after his conviction was overturned earlier this year. Jimmie Duncan had originally been ...