Learn how individuals ended up on death row in the United States, no fluff.

As of January 1, 2022, there are 2,436 individuals on death row. Since 1976, there has been 1,544 executions.

Ennis Reed murders two people, seemingly to be random targets.

Kevin Johnson is currently on death row in Missouri for murdering a Sergeant. Johnson blamed the Sergeant for his brother's death.

Michael B. Ross was Connecticut's first execution by lethal injection and the last before Connecticut abolished the death penalty in 2012. Ross was called the "Roadside Strangler" by a British TV show about serial killers, but was never called that by police or the media.

In 2015, The Man in the Monster: An Intimate Portrait of a Serial Killer, a detailed account of Ross’s killing spree, capture, trial, time in prison and execution, was published by Penguin Press, written by Martha Elliott.

Ronald A. Gray is the longest serving death row inmate on the U.S. Military's Death Row. Former President Bush signed off on his execution in 2008 before it was stayed.

Tired of being disciplined for refusing a cellmate, Robert Holland murders a cellmate.