FOND DU LAC, Wis. (AP) — A prisoner accused of beating her cellmate to death at Wisconsin’s women’s prison almost two years ago pleaded no contest Monday to homicide. Prosecutors charged 29-year-old ...

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. Smith, 75, requested hotdogs, tater ...

THE CLOCK IS TICKING. Gov. Gavin Newsom still has a year and a half left in office, but advocates are starting their call now for him to commute, or reduce, all death sentences in ...

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. Smith, 75, requested hotdogs, tater ...

California currently has 574 individuals on death row, the most in the nation, while being the most populous U.S. state.

TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan executed a man on Friday who killed nine people after contacting them on social media, the first use ...

Attorney General Liz Murrill is pressing the Louisiana Supreme Court to come up with standards that she hopes will bring to ...

Last year, the high court granted Ruben Gutierrez a reprieve 20 minutes before he was to receive a lethal injection.

Mississippi executes the longest-serving man on the state's death row for a woman's murder in 1976.

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. Smith, 75, requested hotdogs, tater ...

A man convicted of raping and killing a woman outside a bar has been executed in Florida. Fifty-one-year-old Thomas Lee ...