Davis Vanguard

Court Ruling Expands Media Access to Tennessee Executions

A Tennessee Chancery Court judge ruled that members of the press have the right to witness executions from beginning to end, ...
San Antonio Current

Several major Texas death row appeals loom in 2026 amid drop in executions

Several appeals in some of Texas’ highest-profile capital punishment cases are set for 2026 as the state continues to maintain a historically low number of executions. 2025 marked the second year ...
WESH

Death row executions nearly doubled this year. Here's where and why

>> LOOK AT THIS BEHIND US. THIS IS THE NUMBER OF DEATH PENALTY EXECUTIONS IN OUR COUNTRY SINCE 1977. YOU SEE THE LATE 90'S. THAT WAS THE PEAK. BUT THEN A GRADUAL DECLINE. >> THAT IS UNTIL NOW. THIS UP ...
Las Vegas Sun

Executions by states doubled in 2025, with Florida accounting for largest share

Nevada death row inmate Scott Raymond Dozier confers with Lori Teicher, a federal public defender involved in his case, during a Thursday, Aug. 17, 2017, appearance in Clark County District Court in ...
CNN

Supreme Court liberals decry ‘excruciating suffocation’ in nitrogen hypoxia executions

The Supreme Court’s three liberal justices on Thursday laid out a remarkable critique of nitrogen hypoxia executions, asserting that the new form of capital punishment causes “psychological terror” ...