All news on the topic: Death Penalty

Velma Barfield became the first woman to be executed by lethal injection in 1984 and the first woman to be executed after the death penalty was reinstated in 1976 for her crimes

Casey McWhorter was put to death on Thursday after killing his friend's father in a robbery. His final meal was a strange one — he requested Turtles candies, a chocolate, pecan and caramel concoction

David Renteria was put to death on Thursday for the 2001 strangling and burning of 5-year-old Alexandra Flores, becoming the eighth death row inmate to be executed in 2023 in the state

An Alabama man was put to death on Thursday after being part of a conspiracy to rob and kill his friend's father. Before he died, he issued a dire warning to youth going through tough times mentally like he was in 1993

WARNING: CONTAINS GRAPHIC DESCRIPTIONS Lawrence Russell Brewer was sentenced to death for his part in the murder of James Byrd Jr in Jasper, Texas, in 1998, who was dragged to death behind a pickup truck

One man's last words have stood the test of time despite him making a simple complaint about the specific type of pasta in his death-row last meal. The Oklahoma prisoner used his last breath to criticise how his request for sppaggetti-os was substituted.

Kimberly McCarthy set a landmark in Texas as the 500th person to be executed since the death penalty was reinstated. And her final words may leave you a little intrigued…

Mary Surratt was the first woman executed by the US government when she was hanged in 1865 after being found guilty of being a conspirator in the plot to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln

British national Ramandeep Kaur Mann has been given the death penalty by a judge in India after being found guilty of the murder of her husband

Zoe Felix often asked neighbours if she could stay with them after being neglected by her mum and was often seen running around unsupervised. Authorities also visited the family many times

Michael Zack III's lawyers sought to stop the execution, arguing he is a victim of fetal alcohol syndrome and posttraumatic stress disorder. He was put to death via lethal injection

Reverend Dr Jeff Hood has described the harrowing final moments of Death Row killer Anthony Sanchez who was executed by lethal injection - and claims nurses are being tasked with carrying out a punishment that 'human beings shouldn't have to perform'

Florida prosecutors are seeking the death penalty against a man who is accused of murdering a Lyft driver as he attempted to flee a violent robbery-turned-murder nearby

Anthony Sanchez maintained his innocence as was executed today saying 'I didn't kill anyone' in his final statement. He was sentenced to death for a 1996 crime

Death Row inmate Anthony Sanchez as executed today and enjoyed a hefty three-course dinner for his final meal - he was convicted of the rape and murder of Juli Busken but activists say his dad confessed to the crime

A death row inmate who was convicted of the rape and murder of 21-year-old ballerina Juli Busken in 1996 was put to death on Thursday morning despite controversial DNA evidence used in his conviction

It may have taken 30 years, but Florida mother Jan Cornell has finally got justice for the brutal slaying of her daughter and her little girl’s babysitter

As a schoolboy, when asked to write what he wanted to be when he grew up, he answered: "When I leave school I should like to be the Official Executioner."

Timothy McVeigh killed 168 people in Oklahoma in a planned hit on a federal building. He refused to give any final words instead providing a poem he copied by hand

After spending more than a decade on death row, US serial killer Aileen Wuornos vowed to return seconds before she was given a lethal injection in 2002

Murat Arpapay, 57, had recently moved to the Turkish capital, Istanbul, after meeting locals online and deciding to start a new life there - but within months he was strapped to a chair and injected with a concoction of lethal drugs that killed him

A death row inmate convicted of killing a woman in 1995 uttered chilling last words before he was put to death in July. Jemaine Cannon was imprisoned for slaughtering 20-year-old mother Sharonda Clark

Torrey Twane McNabb was executed by lethal injection in Alabama in 2017 for shooting and killing a police officer who attended a crash McNabb caused trying to flee a bail bondsman

James Phillip Barnes, 61, previously dropped all legal appeals over his execution and said he wanted to accept his punishment for killing nurse Patsy Miller who was raped, bludgeoned to death with a hammer then set on fire

Johnny Johnson, 45, was found guilty in July 2002, for the murder of Casey Williamson after luring her from her home in Valley Park, St. Louis, to an abandoned glass factory