Tennessee has executed Oscar Smith for the 1989 murder of his estranged wife, Judith Smith, and her sons, Jason and Chad ...

The Oklahoma Board of Pardons and Parole denied death row inmate John Hanson clemency on May ... leaving Hanson, 61, to face execution on June 12 unless a federal judge issues a stay.

John Wayne Gacy was executed in prison 31 years ago on May 10, 1994 Jordana Comiter is an Associate Editor on the Evergreen team at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2024. Her work has ...

Oklahoma Death Row inmate John Hanson was denied clemency at a hearing ... Hanson is set to be executed on June 12, 2025. If carried out, it would mark Oklahoma’s second execution of 2025.

Matthew Lee Johnson was executed on May 20 for the murder of Nancy Judith Harris in May 2012 in the Dallas suburb of Garland.

Mikal Mahdi reportedly “cried out” and flexed his arms once he was shot, according to a witness of the execution Toria Sheffield joined the PEOPLE editorial staff in 2024. Her work as a writer ...

Salt Lake City — Attorneys for a Utah man who's been on death row for 37 years sought to convince a state judge Wednesday that the convicted murderer should be spared execution because he has ...

Richard Jordan's execution is pending a response from the U.S. Supreme Court to his petition for review. Mississippi has executed 23 people since the nationwide moratorium on executions was lifted ...