Lawyers are sparring over a COVID-19-related agreement that has shielded some people on Georgia's death row from execution.

Larry Wayne Whitehead, 62, was convicted in 1996 for the death of Albertville police officer and detective Andrew Whitten.

Robert Roberson, a Texas death row inmate, has filed a new appeal. Roberson, who has autism spectrum disorder, claims ...

A federal judge has ruled against a man on Georgia’s death row who argued that lethal injection could cause him excruciating ...

In 2024, the South Carolina Supreme Court ruled that firing squad was a constitutional method of carrying out executions.

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 severe pain.

A Tennessee death row prisoner has declared a hunger strike, saying he is protesting issues with medical care, the quality of ...

The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Feb. 24 in the case of a man on Texas death row who has long tried to obtain postconviction DNA testing on evidence that he says would exonerate him. Rube ...

Cleveland Clark, convicted in the 2009 Union City contract killing of Sparkle Rai, has had his death sentence commuted to life in prison in Georgia.

The next inmate set to be put to death will be the first to die by firing squad in South Carolina. Brad Sigmon is set to be ...

A federal judge rejected a Georgia death row inmate's request to be executed ... already moved to the U.S. Supreme Court once. He was sentenced for his murder conviction in the 1993 death of ...

A spokesperson for Louisiana's attorney general said "four to five" condemned prisoners are eligible to be executed. But that list doesn't include former NOPD officer Antoinette Frank.