Arguments were heard in the case of Ralph Leroy Menzies, who has been on death row for 37 years, on whether he can be ...

The Supreme Court gave an Oklahoma death row inmate a new chance in the high-profile 1997 murder case. Clarence Thomas and ...

Former Illinois Gov. George Ryan died Friday morning at 91, more than two decades after leaving office for the last time and ...

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

Indiana death row inmate Benjamin Ritchie's clemency hearings are set for the coming weeks as his legal team fights to delay ...

Pee Wee Gaskins was the friendliest and most sociable serial killer Dick Harpootlian has ever met. “You like killing, just ...

A man who has served nearly three decades on death row in Louisiana has had his conviction overturned by a judge.

The reference to carrying out Trump's agenda, "in combination with the unusual timing in this case, suggests that the death ...

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.

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 telephone interview from prison that he dropped his appeals because he’s guilty ...

“The reason I dropped my appeals is I am guilty of murder,” James Osgood told The Associated Press in an telephone interview from ... said he thinks more death row inmates are thinking about ...