All news on the topic: Death row

George Appel who was sent to the electric chair for killing a police officer would have been forgotten if it wasn’t for his notorious and chilling "dad joke"

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

Johnny Johnson, 45, received a a lethal dose of pentobarbital at a state prison in Bonne Terre and was pronounced dead at 6:33 p.m. CDT, authorities said

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

Johnny Johnson, a 45-year-old man, was found guilty of the heinous murder of six-year-old Casey Williamson on July 26, 2002, in Valley Park, a small suburb of St. Louis, Missouri

James Barber was executed in Alabama in the early hours of Friday morning for the 2001 murder of a 75-year-old woman as the state resumed lethal injections following a review into their use

Jemaine Cannon, 51, was given a lethal injection on Thursday, July 20, at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester after being convicted of killing a 20-year-old mum of two he had been living with after escaping a prison work centre

David Neal Cox brutally murdered his wife and sexually assaulted his stepdaughter in front of her at their home in Sherman, Texas, in 2010 and then spent more than a decade waiting to be executed

Robert Bowers, the gunman who brutally killed 11 people at a Pittsburgh synagogue in 2018 could face the death penalty for his crims.

A death row inmate has walked free after 29 years. Barry Jones was on death row in Arizona after he was wrongly found guilty of fatally assaulting a four-year-old girl

According to prison officials he received no visitors before his execution, and he ate a last meal that consisted of a bacon cheeseburger with no bun, onion rings and a milkshake

Duane Owen, of the longest-held inmates on Florida’s death row is set to be executed tonight after killing a babysitter & mother of two while children slept nearby in 1984

Lamont Hunter, from Cincinnati, Ohio, was found guilty of raping and killing his girlfriend's son by a three-judge panel in 2007 who said evidence showed the child had been shaken and beaten to death

Anti-death penalty advocates were not able to stop 12 people from being executed in the US this year. The majority of Americans still support the punishment and more are scheduled for later this year

Michael Tisius had a last meal of two bacon cheeseburgers, curly fries, regular fries and a chocolate milkshake before being executed by lethal injection at the Missouri state prison

Michael Tisius, 42, received a lethal injection of pentobarbital at the state prison in Bonne Terre and was pronounced dead at 6:10 p.m., authorities said

Killer Michael Tisius has been executed on Death Row in Missouri for the murder of two jailers in 2002 when he was just 19 - he died from lethal injection in the 12th execution in the country this year despite outcry over his sentence

Michael Tisius was sentenced to death 23 years ago after attempting to break an inmate he had shared a cell with out of prison in June 2000, shooting and killing two prison officers in the process

A killer in Florida is facing the death penalty after he was convicted of killing an 11-year-old girl and her babysitter in 1990. A jury voted 10 to two in favour of the penalty for Joseph Zieler

Thomas J Grasso was executed by lethal injection after he murdered an 87-year-old woman by strangling her with her Christmas lights before stealing $12 and her TV set, going on to commit a second murder just six months later

The lawyer for death row inmate Richard Glossip has said his client is 'out of peril for now' after the US Supreme Court agreed to halt the planned execution

Darryl B. Barwick, 56, was pronounced dead at 6:14 p.m. Wednesday following a lethal injection at Florida State Prison, the office of Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis said

Gasps were heard as death row inmate Richard Glossip lost his appeal for clemency with the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board, despite Attorney General Gentner Drummond attending on his behalf

Eight months pregnant Bobbie Joe Stinnett was brutally strangled by Lisa Montgomery before her killer cut open her stomach and ripped her unborn baby from her

A death row inmate who has maintained his sentence for 26 years has been told he will be executed next month. A court ruled that Richard Glossip's conviction be upheld despite Oklahom'as attorney general saying the conviction should be thrown out