Under Governor Gavin Newsom's administration, California has shifted its death row policy, transferring condemned individuals ...

Lawrence Russell Brewer was the last death row inmate in Texas that was allowed to choose what his final meal was before his ...

Ron McAndrew witnessed executions using the electric chair in Florida, but one traumatising death never left him and the ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. – Former Illinois Gov. George Ryan, disgraced by a corruption scandal that landed him in prison yet ...

Mississippi's Supreme Court has set June 25 as the execution date for Richard Gerald Jordan, the state's longest-serving ...

A death row inmate was unable to convince a federal appeals court that Texas’ post-conviction DNA-testing procedures violate his right to due process on Thursday.

For prisoners, the transfers off a dismantled death row have brought a broad variety of experiences and emotions.

Richard Gerald Jordan has been on Mississippi's death row since 1977. The state has set an execution date of June 25, saying ...

The death of a 37-year-old man follows an assault inside the Raymond Detention Center as a federal receiver is poised to take ...

A new federal lawsuit alleges Hidalgo County jailers ignored woman's pleas for days before 'dumping' her at the hospital ...

Oscar Franklin Smith, a Tennessee death row inmate scheduled to die on May 22, declined to select a method meaning it ...