Chad Daybell, sentenced to death for murdering his wife and stepchildren, shares letters online claiming innocence and seeking public sympathy.

Iwao Hakamada was acquitted after 46 years on death row for a 1968 quadruple murder. Hakamada was the longest-serving inmate on death row of any prisoner worldwide. Japan and the US are the only G7 ...

Charlotte Cook left her home in Oakland, California, one January afternoon in 1974 to visit her sister. The next day, her ...

A death row prisoner in Arkansas is begging the state to kill him, but his death wish is being stalled by a lawsuit from 10 other inmates trying to stop a highly controversial execution method. Scotty ...

The Florida Times-Union's 25-year crime editor highlights five of the most disturbing death row cases this century in Duval County. As the state prepares to execute the first man sentenced to death in ...

A federal judge has ordered a new trial for an Alabama death row inmate after tests showed it was another man’s DNA on the victim’s body. Chief US District Judge Emily C. Marks last week ruled that ...

LIVINGSTON, Texas – Micah Crofford Brown, the man convicted of killing his ex-wife in front of their children more than a decade ago, was found dead in his cell at the Polunsky Unit in Livingston, ...

The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that a Texas man on death row can bring a federal civil rights claim to challenge the constitutionality of state laws governing DNA testing. By a vote of 6-3, the ...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WAFF) - A man on death row for Huntsville’s notorious ‘cell phone murders’ has lost another appeal. On Friday, Alabama’s Court of Criminal Appeals rejected Joey Wilson’s application ...

Eight years before a jury sentenced him to death for two murders and he confessed to three more, Michael Bell spent time at a Florida reform school so violent that the state later apologized for the ...

Oklahoma prosecutors will retry longtime death row inmate Richard Glossip a third time for his role in the 1997 killing of his former boss, Attorney General Gentner Drummond said Monday. The decision ...