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Death Row

Last year
2024
'Makes no sense': Trump calls out Biden's decision to commute death penalty sentences
Joe Biden commutes sentences of 37 of 40 federal death row inmates to life in prison
Japan court acquits longest-serving death row prisoner more than 50 years after his conviction
US state executes two men despite conviction doubts
UN urges Alabama to halt first US execution using nitrogen gas, says it could 'amount to torture'
All time
Iran sentences three more to death over Amini protests
Two inmates convicted of murder executed in US
US Supreme Court rejects appeal from Oklahoma death row inmate
Japan executes three prisoners for first time since 2019
Pakistani professor sentenced to death for blasphemy
Man (37) who was convicted of two murders executed in Texas jail
Temporary reprieve for more than 700 death row inmates as California suspends executions
Death row inmate chooses electric chair over lethal injection, second inmate to do so in last two months
Pakistani Christian woman who was sentenced to death for blasphemy, freed from jail
Man put to death by electric chair in Tennessee after last minute appeal denied
Man executed in Nebraska prison using untested lethal injection
'Botched' execution in Alabama amounted to 'torture', lawyer claims
'I can feel that': First US inmate executed in 2018 claimed drug used to kill him 'burned'
US death row inmate to get pillow to help him breathe during execution
A US prisoner will face the death penalty tonight - for the eighth time
Arkansas struggling to get more lethal injection drugs
Another death row inmate's life spared in Arkansas
State of Arkansas to fight for permission to go ahead with 8 executions in 11 days
US state plans to put eight men to death over 10-day period
Georgia has just executed its oldest death row inmate
Man on death row barred from having a six-pack of beer with his last meal
Man who became paralysed in jail to be executed tomorrow, despite maintaining his innocence
This man's execution has been put on hold at the last minute as new evidence emerges
Man executed for raping and killing teenage girl 26 years ago
Susan Sarandon is trying to save this man from the death penalty. Here's why...
Brothers wrongfully convicted for killing little girl 'want a normal life' after 30 years behind bars
Two men on death row wrongfully convicted of killing little girl to get just $750k
Irish priest says man executed in Indonesia 'had no idea he was on death row'
After 30 years on death row, Alabama man Anthony Ray Hinton walks free
Woman's execution delayed because of problems with the lethal injection
Working to exonerate innocent people in American prisons
Rory Gallagher, Death Row, and the 1916 Rising: The week in numbers
The first 'double execution' in the US for 14 years will be carried out on Tuesday
Man freed from Death Row after 26 years as judge rules he was innocent
These nine dogs have less than 48 hours to live if they can't be re-homed