A Houston-area man convicted of killing his wife died this week after more than three decades on death row, marking the second condemned prisoner to die behind bars in the past month. Prison officials ...

Byron Black, a 69-year-old man on Tennessee's death row, has formally petitioned Governor Bill Lee to commute his death ...

With Michael Bell's execution in Florida on Tuesday, the U.S. has now had more executions in any given year since 2015, when ...

Two former West Virginia correctional officers were sentenced to decades in prison on Wednesday for their roles in an assault ...

Jordan was the state's longest-serving and oldest death row inmate when executed. This comes after the United States Supreme Court denied an application for stay of execution earlier today. Orders ...

Alabama has set an execution date for a man convicted three decades ago of shooting a woman in the head while she slept. Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey set an Aug. 21 execution date for David Lee Roberts ...

Richard Gerald Jordan, the longest-serving man on Mississippi's death row was executed Wednesday, nearly five decades after he kidnapped and killed a bank loan officer's wife in a violent ransom ...

CHARLES TOWN, W.Va. – An El Salvadoran national accused in the death of a Jefferson County woman whose body was found under a ...

So, what did some of America's most heinous and notorious serial killers request for their last meals before they were ...

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

Ralph Leroy Menzies, 67, is set to be executed Sept. 5 for abducting and killing Utah mother of three Maurine Hunsaker in ...

Michael Bell, scheduled for execution July 15, is one of dozens of death row inmates who were students at Florida's infamously abusive Dozier school.