In northern Iran, Goli Kouhkan was just 12 years old when she was forced to marry her cousin. By 13, she had a child — and years of abuse followed. Now, at only 25, she faces execution after a ...

Aileen Wuornos, who was dubbed the 'Damsel of Death', made an unsettling statement before being put to death for her crimes ...

Wood, 46, is set to be executed Nov. 13 for a fatal stabbing in Oklahoma City in 2002. He denies he was the stabber. He is ...

Separated from the general prison population, Texas death row inmates spend at least 22 hours a day alone in their cells.

If unclaimed after an execution, the state pays for cremation or burial, and the remains are buried at the Captain Joe Byrd ...

Democrat Abigail Spanberger becomes Virginia first female governor.

Death row inmate Todd Boyd maintained his innocence before being put to death via nitrogen gas for a grisly 1993 murder.

With Aileen: Queen of the Serial Killers, Turner chose to get rid of a staple of true-crime documentaries. The doc doesn't ...

More than half of prisoners sentenced to death in the United States have been on death row for more than 18 years. Texas, ...

BRIT grandma Lindsay Sandiford is set to return to the UK after spending 12 years on death row in Bali. The 69-year-old has been holed up in Indonesia for drug trafficking but is now being ...

Aileen Wuornos, who is the subject of the Netflix documentary 'Aileen: Queen of the Serial Killers,' killed at least seven ...

A Mississippi man convicted of kidnapping, raping and killing a 20-year-old community college student was put to death Wednesday evening at the Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman.