Lindsay Sandiford is a grandmother-of-three, and she has told a cellmate what she wants to happen if she is executed ...

Judge Austin Reeve Jackson set Robert Roberson's execution for Oct. 16, almost exactly a year after the Texas Supreme Court granted him a stay.

The program allows the selected prisoners to spend several hours a day outside their cells and allows them to enjoy communal meals, TV time, prayer circles and - for the first time in decades - direct ...

A judge on Wednesday set a new execution date for Robert Roberson, a Texas man who won a last-minute reprieve last year and ...

A judge on Wednesday set a new execution date for Robert Roberson, a Texas man who won a last-minute reprieve last year and could become the first person in the U.S. to be put to ...

A new program in the Polunsky Unit in Livingston, Texas, allows death row prisoners to mingle outside of solitary confinement ...

Byron Black, who is on an implanted defibrillator, wants to make sure his heart does not restart during the execution, causing a prolonged and “torturous” death.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Attorneys for a Tennessee death row inmate have launched a last-ditch effort to prevent his Aug. 5 execution. In Nashville’s Chancery Court, they are asking a judge to require ...

Jordan was sentenced to death in 1977 for the kidnapping and murder of Edwina Marter. PARCHMAN, Miss. — Richard Jordan, Mississippi’s longest-serving death-row inmate, requested chicken tenders, fries ...

Mississippi death row inmate Richard Jordan will eat his last meal at 4 p.m. ahead of his execution Wednesday, June 25.