Texas death row inmate’s final words before execution are revealed - Steven Lawayane Nelson was the second person executed in ...

Trump’s new directive that aims to increase death sentences clashes with some Texas lawmakers’ efforts to add guardrails to capital punishment. Dr. Jeffery Singer testifies during a Criminal ...

LIVINGSTON, United States — Steven Nelson has spent more than a dozen years on Death Row in Texas and is to be executed by lethal injection on Wednesday for the murder of a pastor that he ...

Steven Nelson has spent more than a dozen years on Death Row in Texas and is to be executed by lethal injection on Wednesday for the murder of a pastor that he insists he did not commit.

In most states, inmates on death row get to pick whatever they want—within reason— for their last meal, but in Texas, there is no special last meal because one inmate in 1998 overordered ...

But for Cooper’s action, 2024 would have been the first year since 2016 in which no state granted clemency to any inmate on death row. In place after place, clemency boards and governors turned ...

CALGARY - The fate of a Canadian who has been on death row in Montana for the past 42 years has been thrown into more uncertainty as state legislators try again to remove obstacles to resuming ...

Lawyers for an Alabama Death Row inmate set to die next week said there was a “simple, straightforward option” to guarantee the inmate doesn’t have excess pain during his nitrogen execution ...

Despite spending 23 years on death row, Bowman has maintained his innocence. Last month, he released a four-page statement asserting he did not kill Martin. Lindsey Vann, Bowman's death penalty ...

TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — The world’s longest-serving death row inmate is demanding the Japanese government pay him more than US$1.3 million in compensation after his conviction was quashed ...