Now 55 years old, Barbour isn’t the only person who remains in Alabama’s prison system despite evidence suggesting he didn’t ...

The Supreme Court has ruled for a Texas death row inmate who's seeking DNA testing to show he should be ineligible for ...

Richard Gerald Jordan, 79, was sentenced to death in 1976 for killing and kidnapping a mother of two young children that year ...

A death row inmate’s attorneys are asking the court to reverse a lower court’s decision that declined to decide eligibility ...

As of June 19, 2025, there were 169 people on death row in Texas. Four of them are women, including Melissa Lucio, who was convicted in 2008 of beating her 2-year-old daughter to death.

Jordan, a 79-year-old Vietnam War veteran, is scheduled for execution on June 25th for a 1976 kidnapping and murder. Advocates argue that the death penalty is inhumane and does not deter crime ...

Prosecutors had depicted the ladies on death row—some of whom had been judged guilty of killing their own children—as embodiments of evil. The nuns, however, declined to view the inmates this way.

The Mississippi Supreme Court ruled on May 1 that a man on death row has exhausted all his legal remedies and set an execution date, yet the U.S. Supreme Court has not responded to a petition to ...

In 1977, the California legislature passed a new death-penalty bill to comply with the latest ruling, and the following year voters passed a state ballot initiative to significantly expand the ...

The men on death row could access self-paced HSE prep programs on electronic tablets, which Central Prison gained in 2022, Acree said. And they received HSE study books in 2024, Mitchell said.

Attorneys raised concerns that defendants in a federal MS-13 case could face the death penalty at a hearing Tuesday after federal prosecutors in an unrelated Reno case said they would not seek ...

Utah is expected to execute death row inmate Taberon Honie this week, the first prisoner to be executed in the state since 2010. Here's a rundown of who is currently on death row in Utah and the ...