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

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

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

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

Chris Duncan’s longtime claims of innocence were boosted by the discrediting of bite mark analysis, and by recent reforms now ...

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

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

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

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

Prisoners say the Trump administration is seeking tougher conditions for them as punishment for having their death sentences ...

Death Row Records is in the gospel business. Today, the legendary label released Altar Call, a 21-track project featuring ...

Moises Mendoza used his last words to apologize to Rachelle Tolleson's family before he was executed for her 2004 murder ...