On a balmy day in April 1977, Gov. Mills E. Godwin and a bevy of prison officials, some dressed in seersucker suits, performed a ribbon-cutting ceremony for a cluster of grand new buildings.

Brandy Bain Jennings, convicted for the 1995 Cracker Barrel murders in Naples, Florida, has died of cancer on death row. Jennings and co-defendant Charles Graves robbed the restaurant and murdered ...

SAN FRANCISCO — By age 46, Bob Williams had spent more than half his life in isolation, waiting to die on San Quentin’s death row. Williams was 18 when he raped and murdered 40-year-old Mary ...

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." ...

Real love.” He once again enlisted his wide network to contribute to Altar Call, which includes Jamie Foxx covering Bill Withers’ “Grandma’s Hands,” as well as Death Row artists Charlie ...

died Saturday on death row. He was 70. Powers' official cause of death is pending the medical examiner's report, a spokesperson for the Tennessee Department of Correction said. He had advanced ...

Paul Scott, convicted of murder in Palm Beach County, is one of the longest-serving inmates on Florida's death row. Only three Palm Beach County men have been executed since the reinstatement of ...

The Mississippi Supreme Court denied two death row inmates additional relief. Presiding Justice Leslie King issued a dissenting opinion, criticizing the court's history of upholding Batson claims ...

Marcus Mitchell is on death row at North Carolina’s Central Prison. Convicted of a triple murder, he’s been there for 27 years. And he’s likely never getting out. But he doesn’t believe ...

Editor's note: A previous version of this story included Jarrell Neal and Shedran Williams as a death row inmates ... and Darlene Mills Selvage, 47, at Ministry of Jesus Christ Church, he ...

Watch Part 2 of our extended interview with Ohio death row inmate Keith LaMar ... Richard Wright, Charles Mills, [inaudible], Walter Rodney, C. L. R. James. I started reading.

The state of Alabama executed Jamie Ray Mills, 50, by lethal injection Thursday night for the 2004 beating deaths of an elderly Guin couple. The execution happened in the death chamber of William C.