Malcolm Alexander had been incarcerated at Angola prison 14 years already when he learned about DNA testing, the thing that ...

A federal appellate panel said that Michael Sockwell was eligible to be retried because prosecutors systematically eliminated ...

More than three years after his execution was stayed, an upcoming hearing will address death row inmate Ramiro Ibarra’s ...

Prison officials served death row inmate Oscar Franklin Smith his last meal Wednesday night, about 16 hours before he's scheduled to die by lethal injection. Smith, 75, requested hotdogs, tater ...

This is the third time Todd Kelvin Wessinger's death sentence was vacated and remanded back to state court for a new trial ...

Jimmie "Chris" Duncan, who has been on death row for 27 years, was declared innocent by a judge in April 2023, but remains ...

On Tuesday, the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a lower court decision allowing Richard Gerald Jordan’s June 25 ...

Since 2000, at least seven people have been exonerated after courts found serious flaws associated with a theory called "bite ...

Two of the six federal counts can carry the death penalty, something federal prosecutors have not sought in a Minnesota-based case since the Supreme Court reinstated capital punishment in 1976.

A jury cleared Read of the three most serious charges brought against her, second-degree murder, manslaughter while operating under the influence, and leaving the scene of a crash resulting in death.

An animation based on Kojima Productions’ Death Stranding is in development, separate from A24’s live-action movie based on Hideo Kojima’s game.

A judge vacated Duncan’s murder conviction in April after his legal team argued that it was based on junk science.