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The electric chair at Sing Sing prison is ready, and Ruth Snyder, the woman at the center of the sashweight murder trial, is spending her final hours in a cell just 20 paces from it. She is 32 years old, tense but controlled, and the guards who once called her Ruthless Ruth now see only … Read more

The state of Indiana carried out the execution of Benjamin Donnie Ritchie at 6:01 a. m. Tuesday, May 20, 2025, ending a nearly 25-year legal battle over the murder of Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Officer William Tony. Ritchie, 44, was pronounced dead by lethal injection at the Indiana State Prison in Michigan City, becoming the second … Read more

One death row prisoner managed to spoil the tradition of the infamous final meal privilege in Texas. Inmates no longer leave this world with a full belly of their favourite food all because of Lawrence Russell Brewer. But the 87-year-old tradition was axed in Texas in September 2011, putting a stop to all special meal … Read more

The state of South Carolina executed Freddie Eugene Owens by lethal injection Friday evening, ending a 13-year pause in capital punishment in the state. He was pronounced dead at 6:55 p. m. at the Broad River Correctional Institution in Columbia, bringing a close to a case that spanned nearly three decades and involved two brutal … Read more

The state of Texas carried out the execution of Charles Victor Thompson on January 28, 2026, at 6:50 p. m. at the Huntsville Unit, ending a 28-year journey through the criminal justice system that included a brazen escape from a maximum security jail and a double murder that shocked Houston. Thompson, 55, was pronounced dead … Read more

The clock on the wall inside the Polunsky Unit death row facility read 6:00 p. m. on July 16, 2018, when Christopher Anthony Young, 34, began the final countdown of his life. He had less than 24 hours to live. Not because of illness, not because of war, but because the state of Texas had … Read more

The clock on the wall in Huntsville Unit’s holding cell ticked past 6 p. m. on February 3, 1998, and Karla Faye Tucker, freshly showered and dressed in white prison clothing, her hair still damp, walked without hesitation into the execution chamber. She climbed onto the gurney without assistance, her arms strapped to boards, catheters … Read more

The morning of August 30th, 1985, began like any other for the passengers boarding a Greyhound bus bound for Tucson, Arizona, but among them sat a man whose face would soon be seared into the American consciousness. Richard Ramirez, the elusive Nightstalker who had terrorized Los Angeles with a reign of brutal murders and sexual … Read more

The silence of a peaceful Sunday morning in Anchorage was shattered on March 15, 1987, when Cheryl Chapman received a frantic phone call that her sister Nancy Newman had not shown up for her breakfast shift at a local restaurant. Nancy’s car sat alone in the parking lot, but she was nowhere to be found. … Read more

The air in the execution chamber was thick with a desperate, unspoken prayer, not for salvation, but for a vein. For two agonizing hours on a September day in 2009 at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility, executioners plunged needles into the body of Romell Broom, attempting to find a suitable vessel for the lethal injection … Read more