Could the death penalty be used as a punishment in Missouri for people charged with first-degree crimes of statutory rape or ...

An investigation into an inmate who is believed to have passed from natural causes has opened as a separate one draws to a ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A 55-year-old female inmate died early Thursday morning in her cell at the Clay County Detention Center. The cellmate of Wende K. Routh told detention center staff Routh was having ...

Despite no support for claims that it is a more humane method of execution, Arkansas is looking at using nitrogen gas to kill inmates.

Marion Bowman Jr also died by lethal injection. He was sentenced to death after he was convicted of shooting and killing a friend. Police found the victim's body in a burned out car in 2001.

Marion Bowman Jr also died by lethal injection. He was sentenced to death after he was convicted of shooting and killing a friend. Police found the victim's body in a burned out car in 2001. Following ...

He is South Dakota’s only inmate on death row. Piper’s case has been before the South Dakota Supreme Court more than once. The court reviewed his case and sent it back for resentencing ...

The Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board on Wednesday voted 4-1 to deny clemency to a death row inmate who said last month he is ready to be executed. Wendell Arden Grissom is set to be executed March ...