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

NBC News reported on Sunday that several district attorneys are considering, or have considered, state charges against some ...

Then-new Gov. Gavin Newsom issued a moratorium on executions and ordered death row dismantled. Years later, inmates say they ...

The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to review a Mississippi death row inmate’s convictions for the slayings of eight people, ...

A Texas death row inmate's last words before his execution were an apology to the victim's family. Convicted rapist and killer Moises Sandoval Mendoza, 40, was executed by lethal injection ...

Mendoza is the third inmate executed in Texas this year and the 13th in the nation. He was pronounced dead at 6:40 p.m. CT. At the time of her death, Tolleson was a new mother to her 6-month-old ...

A Texas man convicted of fatally strangling and stabbing a young mother more than 20 years ago was executed Wednesday evening ...

Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court decided not to hear an appeal from a Mississippi death row inmate.Willie Cory Godbolt had appealed his conviction and was sentenced for a 2017 Memorial Day weekend ...

This image provided by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Texas death row inmate Moises Sandoval Mendoza. HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A Texas man convicted of fatally strangling and stabbing ...