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NPR spoke with 26 people who were involved with more than 200 executions across the country. Most said their health suffered and they had little support to help them cope with their unusual jobs.
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Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt granted a 60-day stay of execution for death row inmate Richard Glossip on Tuesday, as the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals reviews a request for a new hearing.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe asks Oklahoma state Rep. Kevin McDugle why he thinks death row inmate Richard Glossip is innocent and deserves a new trial.
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A law firm claims new evidence has been discovered in the case of Oklahoma death row inmate Richard Glossip.
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The Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board voted 3-2 on Wednesday to recommend clemency to death row inmate James Coddington, who iss on death row for the 1997 murder of his friend Albert Troy Hale in Choctaw.
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Attorneys for Oklahoma death row inmates are fighting a legal challenge against the state's controversial three-drug lethal injection protocol. A district court ruled it constitutional on Monday.
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The Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas issued a stay of execution Monday and sent the case back to a lower court for review. Lucio had been scheduled for execution on Wednesday.
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The state Supreme Court is temporarily blocking what was set to be South Carolina's first-ever firing squad execution. The planned April 29 execution of Richard Bernard Moore is now on hold.
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Richard Bernard Moore is the first prisoner in South Carolina to face the choice of execution methods since the state made electrocution the default and gave inmates the option to face rifles instead.
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Four years after he killed 17 people and wounded 17 others at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, Nikolas Cruz goes on trial. He's already pleaded guilty and hopes to avoid the death penalty.