Simms explained, "If you kill a law enforcement officer, a police officer, you can face the death penalty in Utah. If it's a death when you're trying to escape custody, if it's particularly cruel, then you can face the death penalty in Utah.

Florida authorities have scheduled David Pittman, 63, to be executed on September 17, in a case that dates to May 1990 when Pittman killed his estranged wife's parents and sister and then set their home on fire,

A death row prisoner in Arkansas is begging the state to kill him, but his death wish is being stalled by a lawsuit from 10 other inmates trying to stop a highly controversial execution method. Scotty Gardner,

Alabama leaders met this week to discuss a new law that would allow prosecutors to seek the death penalty in some child abuse cases.

Death row exonerees Alfred Rivera, Ed Chapman and Henry McCollum meet at an event sponsored by the N.C. Coalition for Alternatives to the Death Penalty on Aug. 16, 2025, at Pullen Memorial Baptist Church in Raleigh, N.C. T. Keung Hui [email protected]

Before Arizona’s latest execution, which was carried out in March, the average length of stay on death row for the last six inmates who were executed was just over 25 years.

There are dozens of traffickers on death row in the country, including a cocaine-smuggling British grandmother.

Kayle Bates put to death by lethal injection at the Florida State Prison on Tuesday, as executions are on the rise in the United States.