Ralph Menzies spent 36 years on Utah’s death row. He died last year after his execution was stopped over competency concerns. Now a lawmaker says the system is broken — and she wants to speed it up.

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

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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Men on death row are housed at Florida State Prison and Union Correctional Institution in Raiford southwest of Jacksonville. The ...

Amid execution, Ronald Heath and Melvin Trotter allege that the Florida Department of Corrections has violated its lethal ...

Kendrick Simpson, who killed two people during a 2006 drive-by shooting in Oklahoma City, was executed Thursday morning at ...

Simpson's scheduled execution was to be the second of the year in the United States. Florida, which conducted a state record of 19 executions in 2025, put Ronald Palmer Heath to death with a ...

Billy Ray Irick, the death row inmate executed by the state last week, should not receive an autopsy because it would violate his religious beliefs, a Nashville judge ordered. Irick sued to block the ...

Before execution, many death row inmates are offered a final meal. The requests range from ordinary to deeply unusual, and in some cases, the meal is declined entirely.

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.