Death row inmates in five states have been put to death in the span of one week, an unusually high number of executions that defies a yearslong trend of decline in both the use and support of the death penalty in the U.S.

Death row inmates in five states have been put to death in the span of one week, an unusually high number of executions that defies a  year

A pair of blood-spattered trousers in a miso tank and an allegedly forced confession helped send Iwao Hakamata to death row in the 1960s.

Miller’s execution was scrutinized because a forensic psychiatrist found him ‘mentally ill at the time of the offenses’