South Carolina-based journalist Jeffrey Collins observed back-to-back executions in 2025 after the state revived the death penalty following a 13-year pause ...

In 2025, Gov. Ron DeSantis signed death warrants for 19 people, nearly 4 times as many as any other state. List of executions ...

Did you know one of the most infamous moments in American criminal justice history happened right here in Central New York? Long before the phrase “Ol’ Sparky” became part of pop culture, the very ...

The person picked to replace Jerome H. Powell will be thrust into a credibility problem that will be difficult to escape. By Colby Smith Colby Smith covers the Federal Reserve. It was always going to ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — Thursday morning, another death row execution was carried out by the State. Harold Wayne Nichols was the third man to be executed in Tennessee in 2025. Nichols pleaded guilty ...

Tennessee death row inmate Harold Wayne Nichols was executed by lethal injection on Dec. 11. Nichols, 64, sentenced to death for the brutal beating and rape of 20-year-old Karen Pulley in 1988, spoke ...

Tennessee to execute a man who confessed to 1980s rapes and a murder - Tennessee is preparing to execute Harold Wayne Nichols by lethal injection for the 1988 rape and murder of 20-year-old Karen Pull ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — A Knox County judge has ordered the state of Tennessee to release records related to the state’s execution protocol. This order comes as a death row inmate is suing the state ...

Attorneys for Frank Walls cited prison drug logs and autopsy records to argue that his Dec. 18 execution could be “disastrous.” The execution chamber is seen at Florida State Prison in Starke. A ...

The billionaire co-founder of the data analytics and software giant Palantir has called for the U.S. to bring back public hangings for repeat violent offenders. Joe Lonsdale defended open-air ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) — Executions in North Carolina could soon resume, after nearly two decades on hold, now that Iryna’s Law is officially in effect. The law allows for alternate methods of execution ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — 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 ...