For nearly 15 years, a man on death row in Texas has sought DNA testing to try and prove he did not kill an 85-year-old woman ...

Jordan, at 79, is the oldest prisoner on Mississippi's death row. He was sentenced to death in 1977 for the 1976 kidnapping and murder of Edwina Marter, a Gulfport bank executive's wife.

Attorney General Liz Murril has filed a writ asking to speed up the executions of five inmates, including a Caddo Parish native.

Mississippi has executed the longest-serving man on its death row nearly 50 years after he was convicted of murder.

California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) officials are investigating after a death row inmate was killed at Kern Valley State Prison in Delano on Friday. Convicted murderer ...

Arkansas death row inmate Latavious Johnson died of unknown causes at the Varner SuperMax prison on Friday afternoon, according to the state’s department of corrections. He was in his 40s.

Serial killer Richard Ramirez died 12 years ago13. Here's everything to know about how Richard Ramirez, a.k.a. the so-called ...

ONE of Iran’s longest-serving prisoners has exposed the disturbing mechanisms the regime uses to put inmates to death. Saeed Masouri, who has spent 25 years behind bars, also revealed how ...