An Oklahoma judge has exonerated a man who spent nearly 50 years in prison for murder, the longest serving inmate to be declared innocent of the crime.

Officials say a Florida death row inmate convicted of killing a deputy and two other people more than 40 years ago has died in prison.

A man who killed two women he met a day apart at north Florida bars in 1996 has been executed.

Next month’s scheduled execution of a Texas death row inmate whose attorneys say gouged out both of his eyes because of severe mental illness was delayed by a judge.

The execution will mark the first one in Florida since 2019.

For the second time in recent weeks, a Florida prosecutor is granting DNA testing for a death row inmate who has maintained his innocence for more than four decades.

WASHINGTON – Two inmates have died in as many days from coronavirus at the federal prison complex where the U.S. government plans to carry out two executions next week. The executions of Christopher Andre Vialva and William Emmett LeCroy are scheduled to be carried out at the prison complex next week. The government carried out three executions in July and two executions in August. Witnesses to the federal executions are required to undergo security screening at the high-security penitentiary, where Bird was housed. The federal prison system has struggled to combat the coronavirus pandemic behind bars, where social distancing is nearly impossible.