After three executions in less than a year — ending a nearly 15-year pause in Indiana’s use of capital punishment — it’s not ...

More than half of prisoners sentenced to death in the United States have been on death row for more than 18 years. Texas, ...

Kwame Ajamu spent 28 years in prison – three on death row – for a Cleveland murder he didn't commit. He's now pushing for ...

Michael Douglas says attorneys led by the Ohio Innocence Project are hitting all the marks in arguing Tyrone Noling should ...

Alabama is preparing to execute a man by nitrogen gas for the 1993 murder of a man who was set on fire over a drug debt.

Anthony Todd Boyd is pleading to meet with Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey, saying this week that he's innocent and asking her to "do ...

THANKS. A CONVICTED SERIAL KILLER FILES A MOTION IN DOUGLAS COUNTY COURT SAYING HE’S INTELLECTUALLY DISABLED AND THEREFORE CANNOT BE PUT TO DEATH. NOW, A JUDGE HAS A HEARING SET FOR NICO JENKINS.

Missouri on Tuesday is scheduled to execute its first death row inmate of this year for the 2005 murder of a state highway ...

CONVICTED DOUBLE MURDERER EXECUTED BY FIRING SQUAD IN SOUTH CAROLINA There are now 24 men remaining on South Carolina’s death ...

If unclaimed after an execution, the state pays for cremation or burial, and the remains are buried at the Captain Joe Byrd ...

Earlier today, the Maryland legislature voted to make it the 18th state to ban capital punishment. While good news for the men currently on the state's death row, the move is mostly symbolic for any ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina inmate who spent 42 years on death row has died of natural causes at a prison hospital ...