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

The Texas Attorney General’s Office requested a rehearing after the murder conviction of an Amarillo woman on death row was ...

The defenders of death row inmate Brittany Holberg have until May 12 to respond to a federal appeals court considering ...

Florida executed Hutchinson on Thursday despite a letter from 129 veterans to the governor arguing that Hutchinson's mind was ...

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

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.

The Mississippi Supreme Court has scheduled the execution for the state's longest-serving death row inmate for June 25 ...

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

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

Shortly after taking office in 2019, Gov. Gavin Newsom issued a moratorium on executions and ordered death row dismantled.