Christopher Barbour tried to take back his confession more than 30 years ago. Now, new DNA points to someone else.

Mississippi executes the longest-serving man on the state's death row for a woman's murder in 1976.

For nearly 15 years, a man on death row in Texas has sought DNA testing to try and prove he did not kill an 85-year-old woman.

Richard Gerald Jordan, a 79-year-old Vietnam veteran with post-traumatic stress disorder whose final appeals were denied without comment by the U.S. Supreme Court, was sentenced to death in 1976 ...

His lawyers have said there was no physical or forensic evidence connecting him to a fatal stabbing decades ago.

Federal appellate judges are reconsidering what will happen next for Brenda Andrew, the only woman on Oklahoma's death row.

More than 200 Civil rights groups urge Gov. Gavin Newsom to use his powers to commute California's more than 500 death sentences over accusations of its constitutionality and racial discrimination.

Richard Gerald Jordan, the longest-serving man on Mississippi's death row was executed Wednesday, nearly five decades after ...

Attorney General Liz Murrill is pressing the Louisiana Supreme Court to come up with standards that she hopes will bring to ...

In a graphic video that has since gone viral on social media, about seven or more masked men wearing U.S. Border Patrol vests ...

With pleas failing in state and U.S. supreme courts, Thomas Lee Gudinas is set to be executed for the 1994 Orlando murder of ...

A Florida woman, Ms Nancy Campbell-Panitz (52), was beaten to death the same day that she appeared on the Jerry Springer Show and was humiliated by her former husband and his new wife. Police have ...