A Sacramento judge on Friday formally imposed the death penalty for Adel Ramos, who pleaded guilty to the ambush killing of ...

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

The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a Texas death row inmate has the legal right to sue over the state’s laws governing DNA ...

The Supreme Court has ruled for a Texas death row inmate who's seeking DNA testing to show he should be ineligible for ...

Prison officials served death row inmate Oscar Franklin Smith his last meal Wednesday night, about 16 hours before he's scheduled to die by lethal injection.

By age 46, Bob Williams had spent more than half his life in isolation, waiting to die on San Quentin's death row.

As of June 19, 2025, there were 169 people on death row in Texas. Four of them are women, including Melissa Lucio, who was convicted in 2008 of beating her 2-year-old daughter to death.