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

Sometime on May 8, two weeks before his scheduled execution, Oscar Smith was moved away from the other men on death row and ...

Brandy Jennings and Charles Graves killed three Cracker Barrel employees during a robbery of the restaurant in Naples.

Oscar Franklin Smith is set to be executed by lethal injection for the 1989 murder of his estranged wife, 35-year-old Judith ...

Oscar Franklin Smith was moved to death watch, a two-day period of 24-hour observation, before his planned execution.

James Edward Smith was sentenced to death by lethal injection in June 1990 following the murder of life insurance worker ...

Oscar Franklin Smith, 75, is scheduled to be the first to die by Tennessee’s new lethal injection protocol on May 22.

Once-condemned men began moving out of death-row cells at Pontiac and Menard this week as prison officials finish off the last phase of former Gov. George Ryan's historic clemency order.

On death row, he said he clings to education because ... makes them better citizens of the cell block, and makes them better neighbors if they do get released.” The sentencing project is housed ...

On death row, he built a life amid the dank cells of concrete and iron stacked five stories high. He soaked up books on philosophy and spirituality, finding solace in the poem "Invictus." ...