Authorities say Trooper Nikky Green was fatally shot with his own gun while trying to arrest Ricky Malone for allegedly ...

A federal judge rejected a Georgia death row inmate's request to be executed by firing squad because he claims that lethal injection could cause him excruciating pain. Michael Wade Nance ...

Michael Wade Nance, on Georgia's death row for a 1993 murder, argued that lethal injection could cause him severe pain due to his medical history and proposed a firing squad as an alternative.

A remorseful death row inmate pleaded for forgiveness and mouthed one final message before being put to death in Texas on Thursday, 20 years after he killed his strip club manager and another man.

But for Cooper’s action, 2024 would have been the first year since 2016 in which no state granted clemency to any inmate on death row. In place after place, clemency boards and governors turned ...

Nine states have put more inmates to death. But since the unintentional pause, the death row population has dwindled to 29 currently, compared with 63 in early 2011. About 20 have been taken off ...

The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Feb. 24 in the case of a man on Texas death row who has long tried to obtain postconviction DNA testing on evidence that he says would exonerate him.

Now 20 years later, those who know him say he's a deeply faithful man who has become so gentle, he recently hand-raised a baby lizard in his cell on Texas Death Row. "The man I was 20 years ago is ...

Indonesia and France signed an agreement Friday for the transfer of a Frenchman who has languished on death row since 2007 for alleged drug offences. "What we signed today is an agreement between ...

Meanwhile, Sims on Monday asked 22nd District Judge Alan Zaunbrecher to set an execution date for Jessie Hoffman, who was sent to death row for the 1996 killing of Mary “Molly” Elliot ...

Preceded in death by her husband Vilis Berzins, beloved daughter Cara Mia Berzins, parents William Wiley (Randy) Randol, Marjorie Moore Shannon, stepmother Mary Ida Bentley Randol, stepfather ...