SHAWANDA JONES HAS MORE. CASSY. BEFORE TODAY’S DECISION CAME DOWN, I SPOKE WITH GOVERNOR LANDRY JUST A FEW HOURS AGO, AND HE SAYS THIS IS MORE THAN JUST AN EXECUTION. HE SAYS THIS IS A MESSAGE TO ...

A man convicted of killing a Broward mother and her 4-year-old daughter in 2000 is set to be executed May 21 after Gov.

Gov. Bill Lee said he does not plan to intervene in Oscar Smith's execution scheduled for May 22. Smith has no legal avenues remaining to avoid execution. Gov. Bill Lee has denied Oscar Smith’s ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — After the Indiana Parole Board rejected a clemency plea from Benjamin Ritchie, convicted for killing Beech Grove police officer William Toney in 2000, Indiana Gov. Mike Braun is ...

Continuing to accelerate the pace of executions in Florida, Gov. Ron DeSantis on Friday signed a death warrant for a man convicted in the 1994 rape and murder of a woman in downtown Orlando. The ...

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee has denied a request for clemency from a death row inmate set to be executed Thursday. Oscar Franklin Smith was sentenced to death by a Nashville jury for the 1989 murders of ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — Anti-death penalty advocates, including the son of an inmate scheduled to be executed this week, gathered Monday morning at the Tennessee Capitol, urging Gov. Bill Lee to ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — Gov. Bill Lee said he will not intervene in the execution of Oscar Franklin Smith two days before his execution date. Smith is set to die by lethal injection on May 22.

Indiana's governor will not block an execution scheduled for next week. Gov. Mike Braun (R) released a statement early Monday denying Roy Lee Ward's appeal for a stay of execution, saying: After ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster said Wednesday that he disagreed with calls for an investigation into a firing squad execution allegedly mishandled by the state. The comments ...