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4 days ago · As of January 1, 2024, there were 2,241 death row inmates in the United States, including 49 women. The number of death row inmates changes frequently with new convictions, appellate decisions overturning conviction or sentence alone, commutations, or deaths (through execution or otherwise).
2 days ago · This undated photo provided by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, shows Texas death row inmate Ivan Cantu. He was executed by lethal injection in February.
5 days ago · Capital punishment, execution of an offender sentenced to death after conviction by a court of law of a criminal offense. The term ‘death penalty’ is sometimes used interchangeably with ‘capital punishment,’ though imposition of the penalty is not always followed by execution. Learn more about capital punishment.
- Roger Hood
1 day ago · Oklahoma executes Richard Rojem for child's death after almost 40 years on death row. McALESTER − After waiting almost 40 years to be executed, convicted child murderer Richard Norman Rojem Jr. had nothing to say. There was no final declaration of innocence Thursday. There were no expressions of remorse or regret.
1 day ago · Oklahoma executed death row inmate Richard Rojem Jr. by lethal injection Thursday morning, making him the second death row inmate to be executed in the state this year and the ninth in the country ...
5 days ago · Days before his scheduled execution in Texas, Ramiro Gonzales speaks on faith, legacy — and apologizing to the family of his victim, Bridget Townsend. Ramiro Gonzales, on death row in Texas, in June 2022. Rafael Roy. By Maurice Chammah.
4 days ago · gas chamber, method of executing condemned prisoners by lethal gas. The gas chamber was first adopted in the U.S. state of Nevada in 1921 in an effort to provide a more humane form of capital punishment.
