Death row inmates have the right to one last meal of their choosing before they are executed. You might expect requests for ...

The Tennessee Department of Correction served Smith his last meal at 5:30 p.m. May 21, according to spokesperson Dorinda Carter. Smith has been on death watch in a cell next to the execution ...

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 ...

PARCHMAN, Miss. — The longest-serving man on Mississippi's death row was executed Wednesday, nearly five decades after he kidnapped and killed a bank loan officer's wife in a violent ransom scheme.

The time of death was given as 6:16 p.m. Jordan was one of several on the state's death row who sued the state over its three-drug execution protocol, claiming it is inhumane.

Richard Gerald Jordan, a 79-year-old Vietnam veteran with post-traumatic stress disorder whose final appeals were denied without comment by the U.S. Supreme Court, was sentenced to death in 1976 fo… ...