A White House executive order called on the U.S. attorney general to determine whether former federal death row inmates “can ...

Prosecutors are using comments Karen Read has made in interviews and a documentary series in their murder case against her.

Following a Verite News and ProPublica investigation, a district judge vacated the death sentence of Jimmie Duncan, whose ...

Over the last half-century, the political leanings of the Supreme Court, Congress, and the presidency contributed to ...

Richard Djerf, convicted of killing four in 1995, may be the next death row inmate executed after exhausting all appeals.

James Osgood was condemned to die for the 2010 killing of Tracy Lynn Brown. He is one of only a small number of inmates on U.S. death rows to abandon their legal challenges.

A man on Alabama’s death row wants his execution to go forward this week, saying he believes in an “eye for an eye.” ...

Richard Glossip, who spent decades on death row and came close to the execution chamber several times, has been moved to the Oklahoma County Detention Center.

To the victim’s family, I apologize .. I’m not going to ask their forgiveness because I know they can’t give it.” ...

A man on Alabama’s death row wants his execution to go forward this week. James Osgood told The Associated Press in an ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - On Friday, the South Carolina Department of Corrections executed its second death row inmate by firing squad since the state reinstated the death penalty in 1976.

A death row inmate who was executed by a method only used five times in 50 years took his last breath on Friday (11 April). Mikal Mahdi was put on death row after claiming the lives of two people in ...