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

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 ...

Richard Jordan, the longest-serving and oldest person on Mississippi's death row, was executed on June 25 for the 1976 murder and kidnapping of Edwina Marter.

The court had earlier vacated Darrell Robinson's conviction and death sentence in a brutal quadruple murder in Rapides Parish but reversed itself in December. The court ruled Friday to keep ...

This is the third time Todd Kelvin Wessinger's death sentence was vacated and remanded back to state court for a new trial penalty phase.

Many of the inmates transferred out of death row had grown used to the relative solitude. The transition to new prisons has meant adjusting to group settings and confrontation. [Robert Gauthier ...

The Supreme Court granted Texas death row inmate Ruben Gutierrez the right to sue over DNA testing laws as he argues he shouldn't be given the death penalty for the 1998 murder he was convicted of.

The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 for Ruben Gutierrez, a Texas death row inmate, granting a path for DNA testing that could impact his execution eligibility.

The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 for Ruben Gutierrez, a Texas death row inmate, granting a path for DNA testing that could impact his execution eligibility.