A lawsuit filed on behalf of 21 inmates seeks to prevent them from being transferred to a notorious federal supermax prison ...

NBC News reported on Sunday that several district attorneys are considering, or have considered, state charges against some ...

North Carolina lawmakers will discuss a bill Tuesday that would give death row inmates the option to choose between three execution methods: lethal injection, electrocution, or firing squad.

A man on Alabama’s death row wants his execution to go forward this week. James Osgood told The Associated Press in an ...

A man who has served nearly three decades on death row in Louisiana has had his conviction overturned by a judge.

Texas death row inmate Moises Mendoza is set to be executed April 23 for the 2004 murder of Rachelle O'Neil Tolleson.

Indiana death row inmate Benjamin Ritchie is set to have two clemency hearings in the coming weeks to determine whether his ...

A Louisiana judge this week set aside the first-degree murder conviction and death sentence of Jimmie Chris Duncan, whose ...

with both new death sentences and executions declining. The Post found last year that many of the 2,000 inmates on death row are likely to die without being executed. Most death row inmates are ...

Isaiah McCoy was already serving 10 years at Saguaro Correctional Center for a state robbery case, but he is now facing life ...

But as a new sentencing hearing began ... Osgood said he thinks more death row inmates are thinking about dropping their appeals, because life without parole is scarier than death.