Under Governor Gavin Newsom's administration, California has shifted its death row policy, transferring condemned individuals ...

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 ...

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

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

For prisoners, the transfers off a dismantled death row have brought a broad variety of experiences and emotions.

The death of a 37-year-old man follows an assault inside the Raymond Detention Center as a federal receiver is poised to take ...

At every Florida execution — including Jeffrey Hutchinson’s execution set for Thursday — church-goers and members of Floridians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty gather to seek an end to the ...

Breaking news.  Godden Matanga recounts his 21-year journey from death row to freedom. – Picture: Esther Mushove Trust Freddy, Features Correspondent THE words, “Hear, hear, hear! May the court keep ...

Former death row inmate Isaiah McCoy faces up to life in prison after a jury convicted him on multiple sex trafficking ...

I’m a firm believer in, like I said in court, an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. I took a life so mine was forfeited. I ...

A death row inmate who killed a Visalia man and a lesbian couple in Oregon died at the Oregon State Penitentiary.