On Tuesday, House Bill 270 moved to its next committee. The bill changes the go-to execution method from lethal injection to ...

The Alabama Supreme Court has authorized the execution of death row inmate Gregory Hunt for the 1988 beating death of a Walker County woman. All nine justices on the court, in a ruling issued Thursday ...

A federal judge says Idaho prison officials must allow media witnesses at executions to watch as the lethal injection drugs ...

RALEIGH, N.C. — 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 ...

The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to review a Mississippi death row inmate’s convictions for the slayings of eight people, including his mother-in-law and a deputy sheriff JACKSON, Miss.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A Louisiana man who has spent nearly three decades on death row has had his conviction overturned by a district judge following a review of forensic analysis that the inmate ...

In what he now calls a 'wonderful career', he recalled moving to Florida State Prison, famous for holding the US state's death row inmates and for being the ... as a horrific smell spread across the ...

US Supreme Court Declines Review of Mississippi Death Row Inmate's Convictions in Killings of 8 JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to review a Mississippi death row ...

Clemency hearings for Indiana death row inmate Benjamin Ritchie will take place in the coming weeks as the condemned man’s legal team fights to delay — or stop altogether — a pending May ...