A Chancery Court judge says the state must disconnect the heart defibrillator shortly before the inmate's August execution to ...

23. Belle Gunness, a Norwegian American serial killer active in Illinois and Indiana from 1884–1908, suspected of killing up ...

Director Reid Davenport's documentary 'Life After' uses the story of Elizabeth Bouvia to question seemingly progressive ...

An inmate at a women’s prison in Las Vegas died last week, according to a news release from the Nevada Department of ...

Death row convict Jimmie "Chris" Duncan, imprisoned for 32 years for alleged rape and murder of a two-year-old, now has been ...

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

STARKE, Fla. — A man who fatally shot a man and woman outside a Florida bar as part of an attempted revenge killing is ...

Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill is asking the Louisiana Supreme Court to expedite executions for five death row inmates.

Attorney General Liz Murrill is asking the Louisiana Supreme Court to review five death row post-conviction relief cases and develop standards for district courts to use.

Thomas Lee Gudinas, 51, was pronounced dead at 6:13 p.m. after receiving a lethal injection at Florida State Prison near Starke, said Bryan Griffin, a spokesman for Gov. Ron DeSantis. Gudinas was ...

Louisiana officials arrest Darriana Burton, girlfriend of escaped inmate Derrick Groves, on conspiracy charges as manhunt continues for two jail fugitives ...

A Louisiana judge this week set aside the first-degree murder conviction and death sentence of Jimmie Chris Duncan, whose 1998 conviction for killing his girlfriend’s 23-month-old daughter was ...