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As of January 1, 2024, there were 2,241 death row inmates in the United States, including 49 women. The number of death row inmates changes frequently with new convictions, appellate decisions overturning conviction or sentence alone, commutations, or deaths (through execution or otherwise).
- Len Davis
A subsequent jury also chose the death penalty for Davis,...
- Dylann Roof
Dylann Storm Roof (born April 3, 1994) is an American white...
- List of Women on Death Row in The United States
This is a list of women on death row in the United States....
- Samantha Runnion
On May 16, 2005, a jury returned a guilty verdict, and Avila...
- Michael Owen Perry
Background. Michael Owen Perry (born December 3, 1954)...
- Isauro Aguirre
On May 24, 2013, Gabriel Fernandez, an eight-year-old boy...
- Troy Kell
Troy Michael Kell (born June 13, 1968) is an inmate on death...
- Richard Djerf
Richard Kenneth Djerf (born November 6, 1969) is an American...
- Nikko Jenkins
Nikko Allen Jenkins (sometimes spelled Nicholas on first...
- Jason Eugene Bush
On May 30, 2009, 29-year-old Raul Flores Jr. and his...
- Len Davis
This is a list of women on death row in the United States. The number of death row inmates fluctuates daily with new convictions, appellate decisions overturning conviction or sentence alone, commutations, or deaths (through execution or otherwise).
- 1987–1992: Origins and The First Generation
- 1992–1995: The Chronic, Doggystyle, and Other Releases
- 1995–1996: Signing 2Pac, Bad Boy Records Feud, Dr. Dre's Departure
- 1996–2001: Tupac Shakur's Murder, Suge Knight's Incarceration, and Decline
- 2001–2005: Knight's Release, Return to Prison, Second Generation
- 2006–2022: Bankruptcy, Closure, Wideawake, Hasbro
- 2022–Present: Revival Through Snoop Dogg and Third Generation
In 1987, N.W.A's Dr. Dre signed to Eazy-E's Ruthless Records. As head of production at the label, Dr. Dre produced a large number of Ruthless projects, many of them successful; feeling the pressures of having to produce so many acts and feeling he was underpaid, Dr. Dre became frustrated with Ruthless. After the departure of Ice Cube in 1989 over f...
With the help of Kenner, Knight began signing young, inner-city California-based artists and arranged for Death Row Records to contribute to the soundtrack for the 1992 film, Deep Cover. The single, "Deep Cover", established Dr. Dre as a solo artist and a young Snoop Doggy Dogg as his protégé. Work soon began on The Chronic, Dr. Dre's debut solo al...
After an August visit to see 2Pac at Clinton Correctional Facility in northern New York state, Suge traveled southward to New York City to join Death Row's entourage to the 2nd Annual Source Awards ceremony. Already reputed for strongarm tactics on the Los Angeles rap scene, Suge used his brief stage time mainly to disparage Sean "Puff Daddy" Combs...
Formerly a united front of artists, Death Row's roster fractured into separate camps. Daz, now head producer, worked on Snoop Dogg's second album Tha Doggfather, which featured Bad Azz and Techniec of his LBC Crew, Warren G and Nate Dogg of his group 213 and Tha Dogg Pound. 2Pac shut himself into the studio with Hurt-M-Badd and Big "D", crafting Th...
Maintaining artistic control from behind bars, Suge Knight launched smear campaigns against his former artists, most notably Snoop Dogg, death threats were exchanged, and Snoop Dogg responded by publicly dissing Suge Knight, leaving the label, and later releasing a diss track named "Pimp Slapp'd", critically acclaimed by music magazine Complex. The...
On April 4, 2006, both Death Row Records and Suge Knight simultaneously filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection following the appointment of a Receiver to acquire and auction off assets of both Death Row Records and Suge Knight in the civil case filed by Lydia Harris. Among those listed as unsecured creditors to Death Row include the Harrises ($...
On February 9, 2022, ahead of the release of his next album and his appearance in the Super Bowl LVI halftime show, Snoop Dogg announced that he would acquire the rights to the Death Row Records trademarks from MNRK Music Group (the renamed eOne Music). The sale did not immediately include rights to the label's catalog, but it was reported that he ...
Nov 9, 2022 · A Texas inmate whose lawyers say has a history of mental illness faces execution on Wednesday for killing his mother and burying her body in her backyard nearly 20 years ago. Tracy Beatty, 61,...
Nov 10, 2022 · Tracy Beatty, 61, received a lethal injection at the state penitentiary in Huntsville. He was pronounced dead at 6:39 p.m. CST after a fatal dose of pentobarbital began flowing through needles inserted into veins in his wrists.
Feb 21, 2018 · Here's a few key moments in the successes and tragic moments that Death Row Records has been connected to through the label's history.
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May 10, 2019 · Tracy Petrocelli, who has been on death row in Nevada for 34 years, appears in Washoe County District Court in Reno during a hearing to challenge his death sentence, Friday, May 10, 2019. Petrocelli was convicted in the 1982 killing of a Reno car salesman, months after killing his girlfriend in Seattle. (Jason Bean/The Reno Gazette-Journal via ...
