Mississippi has 37 death row inmates and all but one are men. Richard Gerald Jordan, 79, is the longest-serving death row ...

Attorney General Liz Murrill is asking the Louisiana Supreme Court to review five death row post-conviction relief cases and ...

He promised them a written ruling later Wednesday, “so you can argue it upstairs” in a higher court. Previously, the South Carolina Supreme Court rejected Stanko’s request for more details on the ...

Death Row Inmate Facing Firing Squad Claims Riflemen For Last Execution of Missing On Purpose to 'Cause Great Pain' Attorneys are challenging how executions in South Carolina have been performed.

ATMORE, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama man convicted of killing a woman in 1988 was put to death Tuesday evening in the nation’s sixth execution by nitrogen gas.

A judge granted a temporary stay of execution for Oklahoma death row inmate John Fitzgerald Hanson ahead of his previously scheduled execution date on Thursday.

ATMORE, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama man convicted of killing a woman in 1988 was put to death Tuesday evening in the nation’s sixth execution by nitrogen gas. Gregory Hunt, 65, was pronounced dead at 6:26 ...

ATMORE, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama man convicted of killing a woman in 1988 was put to death Tuesday evening in the nation’s sixth execution by nitrogen gas. Gregory Hunt, 65, was pronounced dead ...

Hunt, who was born in 1960 and came to death row in 1990, is now among the longest-serving inmates on Alabama’s death row. He said prison became his “hospital” to heal his broken mind.

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma prosecutors will pursue a murder charge, but not the death penalty, against longtime death row inmate Richard Glossip for his role in the 1997 killing of his former ...