Michael Bell will be the 50th person from Duval County put to death in Florida. But Duval's ties to Florida's executions run much deeper.

How many people have been executed in Mississippi? How were their deaths conducted? How many women executed? Any notable ...

Ralph Leroy Menzies, 67, is set to be executed Sept. 5 for abducting and killing Utah mother of three Maurine Hunsaker in ...

A new report by the Death Plenty Information Center finds that new death sentences are on the decline in the U.S. in 2025, ...

More than three decades after killing his wife and two young children, former Florida airman Edward J. Zakrzewski II is ...

Reporter Steven Hale speaks at a news conference outside Riverbend Maximum Security Institution after the execution of Tennessee death row inmate David Earl Miller on December 6, 2018, in Nashville.

Twenty-four executions have been carried out in 2023 — five more than last year, the Death Penalty Information Center says. Meanwhile, 50% of Americans say the death penalty is applied unfairly.

In 2024, 25 death row inmates were executed in nine states. The number of executions each year has remained under 30 for nearly a decade. "If you look back a number of years, you can see a much ...

The agreement does not halt all executions of death row inmates. The last inmate executed by the state was Willie James Pye on March 20, 2024. Meanwhile, ...

When a Death Row inmate isn't killed as planned, the result can be a drawn-out, agonizing death. And it happens more often than you might think. Just this week, a South Carolina firing squad ...

Amnesty International says executions in Saudi Arabia hit a record high last year, with 345 people put to death.

Hale witnessed two of those executions, in addition to Irick’s. He chronicles his experiences in a new book, “Death Row Welcomes You: Visiting Hours in the Shadow of the Execution Chamber ...