k0710 James Dennis Ford was executed by lethal injection Thursday evening at Florida State Prison in Stark, ending a 25-year odyssey through the appeals process for the brutal 1997 murders of a young couple whose toddler daughter survived alone in a blood-soaked truck for 18 hours. Ford, 64, was pronounced dead at 6:19 p. m. after … Read more
The execution chamber at Oklahoma State Penitentiary fell silent at 9:13 p.m. Tuesday as Lois Nadean Smith, 61, was pronounced dead, ending a 19-year journey from death row to the gurney for the brutal 1982 murder of a young mother. Smith, who earned the nickname “Mean Naden” in high school, became the third woman executed … Read more
Texas executed Peter Cantu tonight, the gang leader who ordered the brutal murders of two teenage girls in 1993, bringing an end to a 17-year legal battle that reached the highest courts in the nation and the White House. Cantu, 18 at the time of the killings, was pronounced dead at 6:17 p. m. at … Read more
Thomas Arthur, a 75-year-old convicted murderer who spent more than three decades on Alabama’s death row and survived seven previous execution dates, was pronounced dead just after midnight Thursday, becoming the oldest inmate executed in the state since 1982. Arthur was put to death by lethal injection at Holman Correctional Facility for the 1982 murder … Read more
HUNTSVILLE, Texas — The clock on the wall of the Huntsville Death House reads 11:47 p. m. In just 18 hours and 13 minutes, the state of Texas will 𝓀𝒾𝓁𝓁 Michael James Perry. He knows this because he has been counting everything. The number of concrete blocks in his cell wall. The number of fluorescent … Read more
LIVINGSTON, Texas — The final 24 hours of Cameron Todd Willingham’s life were a study in quiet desperation, mechanical routine, and a last-minute hope that flickered only to die. In a holding cell at the Allan B. Polunsky Unit on February 16, 2004, with the clock ticking toward 7:00 p. m. , Willingham sat under … Read more
The clock was already ticking when Robert Anthony Buell stepped through the gates of the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville on the morning of September 24, 2002. He knew, as every man who enters that place knows, that he would never walk out alive. But for Buell, 62 years old and 18 years into … Read more
The clock was already ticking when Robert Anthony Buell stepped through the gates of the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville on the morning of September 24, 2002. He knew, as every man who enters that place knows, that he would never walk out alive. But for Buell, 62 years old and 18 years into … Read more
Scott Peterson made headlines in the early 2000s when he was convicted of murdering his wife Laci Peterson and their unborn child. Laci was eight months pregnant with the couple’s son, Conner, when she disappeared on Christmas Eve in 2002. Scott was arrested a few days after her body was found, on April 18, 2003. … Read more
LINCOLN, Neb. — Just after midnight on June 25, 1959, the state of Nebraska strapped 20-year-old Charles Starkweather into the electric chair and ended the life of a young man who, over eight days in January 1958, had methodically taken 11 lives across the American Midwest. The execution, carried out at the Nebraska State Penitentiary, … Read more