James Robertson, 63, was pronounced dead at 12:32 p.m. following a three-drug lethal injection at Florida State Prison near Starke. He had pleaded guilty to first-degree murder and waived all post-conviction appeals in the 2008 strangling of Frank Hart.

Gov. Ron DeSantis signed his record-tying 19th death warrant of the year, this one for an inmate who killed his cellmate as an escape to better jailhouse conditions given to death row prisoners.

Douglas Stewart Carter was released on bail after spending decades on death row for a 1985 murder conviction

Louisiana leaders will offer a man who’s been on death row nearly 30 years the option to die by lethal injection in response to his legal challenge of nitrogen gas executions, the method the state

William Thompson, 74, was convicted of the March 30, 1976, killing of 23-year-old Sally Ivester in North Miami Beach.

Wright’s reporting initially resulted in a 20,000-word magazine story, “ The Nuns Trying to Save the Women on Texas’ Death Row ,” which ran in February 2025 in The New Yorker, where Wright is a staff writer. He has now expanded the article into a book, his twelfth work of nonfiction, titled Redemption: Faith, Justice, and Sisterhood on Death Row.

He asked for life in prison, but struggled to explain why anger at his girlfriend led him to kill her two young children.

RYAN Matthews will never forget the five haunting words read out to him in court 30 years ago: “We sentence you to death.” Still only a teenager, he was swiftly taken to a dark, eerie