The Florida death row killer executed Tuesday night for the grisly rape and murder of a married mom reportedly devoured a ...

Southwest Ohio's longest-serving resident on the state's Death Row has died, just over 40 years after he was arrested for the deaths of five family members in Dayton. Samuel Moreland, 72, died ...

Georgia's long-running fight over how and when it can carry out death sentences landed back before the state Supreme Court on Wednesday, with lawyers arguing over whether a pandemic-era deal should ...

Cedric Ricks, 51, was executed on Wednesday in Texas after stabbing his girlfriend and her eight-year-old son to death in 2013 ...

From prison on his scheduled execution day, Charles “Sonny" Burton said he feels he “dodged death" after receiving clemency.

Attorneys for James Broadnax are seeking to halt his April 13 execution for murdering two men at a Garland Christian music recording studio. His co-defendant, Demarius Cummings, is now claiming he was ...

Texas Court of Criminal Appeals reverses death penalty more than a decade after 2012 killings ...

Texas death row inmate Cedric Ricks, convicted of murdering his ex-girlfriend and her 8-year-old son, apologized to a surviving victim before execution.

The U.S. Supreme Court has paved the way for one of Alabama's longest-serving death row inmates to receive a new trial. On Monday, the court declined to review the state's appeal of a lower court ...

It is only the second commutation for Gov. Kay Ivey, a Republican. The inmate, Charles Burton, was scheduled to die even ...

Charles 'Sonny' Burton was sentenced to death for his role in a 1991 Alabama convenience store robbery that saw a customer killed ...

A month before a death row inmate is scheduled to be executed for his role in a double murder case from 2008, his cousin has ...