NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Attorneys for a Tennessee death row inmate have launched a last-ditch effort to prevent his Aug. 5 ...

A death row inmate set to be executed later this year has asked the state Supreme Court to overturn a lower court ruling and ...

Death row prisoner Byron Black is asking the Tennessee Supreme Court to step in and delay his scheduled Aug. 5 execution.

A death row inmate, Jones spent more than 30 years in one of the nation’s most notorious prisons, San Quentin. He was sentenced to death in 1996 for the murder of a California couple.

Biden commutes sentences of federal death row inmates, ‘striking blow’ to system that has ‘always targeted Black people’ This historic action is consistent with Biden's efforts to abolish ...

It's a full circle moment for Snoop. Snoop Dogg and Death Row Records have joined forces with Reservoir Media in a new publishing agreement that encompasses domestic publishing for the artist and ...

There are currently 136 inmates on North Carolina's death row, of which 75 are Black, 51 are white and the remaining 10 are another race, according to the state Department of Adult Correction.

According to the Death Penalty Information Center, 38% of federal death row inmates are Black -- compared to the 14% of total American population according to the Pew Research Center.

“The death penalty is 1,000 percent rooted in racism,” says professor Frank R. Baumgartner, a death-penalty expert at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, citing how Black citizens ...

Three-fourths were white, one-fourth Black. They ranged in age from their 20s into their70s, ... There are 37 prisoners on Mississippi's death row. All but one are men, ...

A North Carolina judge ruled Friday that a Black defendant’s capital trial was undermined by allegations of racial bias during jury selection, potentially opening the door to death row inmates ...

Defendant Hasson Bacote, 38, was sentenced to death by a nearly all-white jury in 2009. ... There are currently 136 inmates on North Carolina's death row, of which 75 are Black, ...