This post was updated on April 25, 2017 to reflect most recent figures. Mouse over or tap a bar in the chart to see the figures for that year. Arkansas conducted a rare double execution on Monday, ...
Ellis Rold of WBIR Channel 10 says Tennessee’s most infamous death penalty case is back in the spotlight, again, because the state’s only woman on death row is now suing over how she could be executed ...
Until this year, death penalty executions had been dwindling across the nation. The sudden spike now is unusual, experts say.Forty-six people on death row have been executed so far this year, and two ...