A death row inmate who was convicted of fatally shooting a U.S. airman and his girlfriend and later confessed to three other killings is now scheduled to die by lethal injection next month in Florida, under the terms of a death warrant signed Tuesday by Gov. Ron DeSantis. DeSantis has authorized a record number of…
A South Carolina man convicted of killing three people over five days more than 20 years ago was executed by a firing squad on Friday evening. Stephen Bryant, 44, was executed for killing a man in his home and writing “catch me if u can” on the wall with the victim’s blood. He was pronounced…
An Oklahoma death row inmate was hospitalized Thursday after being found unresponsive in his cell, officials said, just hours after being granted clemency on the same day he was scheduled to be executed. Forty-six-year-old Tremane Wood was granted clemency Thursday morning by Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt. After that decision came down, Wood met with his…
A death row inmate in Oklahoma was preparing for his scheduled execution Thursday when Gov. Kevin Sitt spared his life and announced his decision to commute Wood’s sentence from death to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Tremane Wood, 46, is the sixth condemned person to receive clemency in the state in the…
Executions are on the rise in the United States. After creeping upward since the coronavirus pandemic, when the country’s use of the death penalty reached a historic low, the numbers have skyrocketed this year. Forty-one executions have been carried out so far in 2025, and, without intervention from government officials or the courts, another six…
South Carolina’s highest court has refused to stop the execution of a man who killed three people over five days more than 20 years ago while leaving taunting messages for police in the blood of one of his victims. Stephen Bryant, 44, is being put to death for killing a man in his home and writing…
Tennessee death row inmate Harold Wayne Nichols on Monday declined to choose between the electric chair and lethal injection for his Dec. 11 execution, meaning the state will default to lethal injection. Nichols was sentenced to death in 1990 after he was convicted of raping and murdering Karen Pulley, a 21-year-old student at Chattanooga State…
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. Wood, 46, faces execution for his conviction in the 2001 murder of Ronnie Wipf, a migrant farmworker, at an Oklahoma City hotel…
A Florida man convicted of raping and killing his next-door neighbor was executed Tuesday evening, the state’s 15th execution this year. Florida has executed more people than any other state this year, followed by Texas and Alabama with five each. Norman Mearle Grim Jr., 65, died by lethal injection at Florida State Prison near Starke at…
An Alabama man convicted of helping to burn a man alive in 1993 over a $200 drug debt was executed by nitrogen gas on Thursday. Anthony Boyd, 54, was pronounced dead at 6:33 p.m. local time at William C. Holman Correctional Facility, authorities said. The execution was carried out by nitrogen gas, a controversial method…