Virginia’s death row population peaked in 1995 at 57 or 58 inmates. Today there are just four, the fewest since July 1979, not long after Virginia law was changed enabling resumption of the ...

Byron Black, a 69-year-old man on Tennessee's death row, has formally petitioned Governor Bill Lee to commute his death ...

The summaries below are primarily drawn from opinions of the Virginia Supreme Court that reflect the state's view of the evidence.

They also make up over 62% of all current death row inmates and 55.5% of all executions since 1955, the year with the earliest detailed data on executions from MDOC.

Alabama's utility regulators can continue to hold closed-door meetings to determine price hikes, in an apparent departure ...

Over the last decade, an array of local and state agencies missed opportunities to fund a flood warning system intended to ...

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

A former correctional officer at Southern Regional Jail was sentenced Monday for his role in the 2022 death of an ...

Mississippi death row inmate Richard Jordan will eat his last meal at 4 p.m. ahead of his execution Wednesday, June 25.

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

The former officers, who brutally beat a 37-year-old man, received prison terms ranging from three years to more than two ...

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.