The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that a Texas man on death row can bring a federal civil rights claim to challenge the ...

The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled for a Texas death row inmate who is seeking DNA testing to show he should be ineligible ...

Ruben Gutierrez is challenging the constitutionality of a state law that restricts death row inmates from seeking tests that ...

Missouri is one of two states where a judge can hand down death when juries cannot agree unanimously on a sentence.

Cameron County District Attorney Luis V. Saenz is responding to a new development in a death penalty case out of Brownsville. In a 6-3 decision, the Supreme ...

A man has been jailed for 12 years for killing his “much-loved” elderly neighbour in a row over shutting a gate.Trevor Gocan, ...

Vietnam veteran Richard Gerald Jordan is set to be executed in Mississippi nearly 50 years after being sentenced to death.

At least 37 Ethiopian men are facing the death penalty in Saudi Arabia for drug-related offences, according to a joint statement by 31 civil society and human rights organizations, which raised alarm ...

The Rev. Jeff Hood has witnessed 11 executions: four in Oklahoma, three in Alabama, two in Texas, one in Missouri and one in Florida.  The Rev. Jeff Hood is “determined to let people know you’re ...

A man has been jailed for 12 years for killing his elderly neighbour in a row over shutting a gate. Trevor Gocan, 57, punched and kicked James “Jim” O’Neill, 74, outside their housing estate in Covent ...

Thomas Lee Gudinas, 51, was the seventh person put to death in Florida this year, with an eighth scheduled for next month.