A federal judge rejected a Georgia death row inmate's request to be executed by firing squad because he claims that lethal injection could cause him excruciating pain. Michael Wade Nance ...

A remorseful death row inmate pleaded for forgiveness and mouthed one final message before being put to death in Texas on Thursday, 20 years after he killed his strip club manager and another man.

The first death warrant secured by a district attorney in Louisiana in years was recalled within a day by the Rapides Parish judge who signed it, after the condemned man's lawyers argued that he ...

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 ...

Now 20 years later, those who know him say he's a deeply faithful man who has become so gentle, he recently hand-raised a baby lizard in his cell on Texas Death Row. "The man I was 20 years ago is ...

Nine states have put more inmates to death. But since the unintentional pause, the death row population has dwindled to 29 currently, compared with 63 in early 2011. About 20 have been taken off ...

Indonesia and France signed an agreement Friday for the transfer of a Frenchman who has languished on death row since 2007 for alleged drug offences. "What we signed today is an agreement between ...

A Florida man convicted of killing a husband and wife at a remote farm in an attack witnessed by the couple’s toddler was put to death Thursday in the state’s first execution of the year.

U.S. authorities are preparing to transfer former federal death row prisoners — currently held in Terre Haute — to a higher-security prison in Colorado. Sometimes referred to as the “Alcatra ...

According to the Death Penalty Information Center, 12 death row inmates have so far been scheduled ... The officer in charge of the USS Harry S. Truman has been relieved of his duties after ...