NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Attorneys for a Tennessee death row inmate have launched a last-ditch effort to prevent his Aug. 5 ...

A federal appeals court ruled Alabama prosecutors violated the constitutional rights of a man sentenced to death in 1990, ...

Three decades since mistakenly gunning down two people in a revenge killing and three weeks from his execution, Michael Bell ...

The Tennessee Supreme Court has ruled that a Memphis judge did not have the authority to give a man formerly on death row concurrent sentences of life in prison. The ...

The death row population dropped to 29 after inmate Wendell Grissom was executed in March and inmate Richard Glossip won on appeal at the U.S. Supreme Court in February.

A letter from a death row inmate A one-page letter from Robertson landed in a federal judge’s mailbox on April 7, four days before South Carolina executed its fifth inmate in seven months.

A letter from a death row inmate A one-page letter from Robertson landed in a federal judge’s mailbox on April 7, four days before South Carolina executed its fifth inmate in seven months.

COLUMBIA, S.C. — After his best friend and four other fellow death row inmates have been put to death in less than a year, a South Carolina inmate wants to become his own attorney which would ...

Death watch is the two-day period before an execution when a death row inmate is placed under 24-hour observation and stricter rules. Smith's execution is scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. on May 22.

In 2022, Gov. Lee ordered TDOC to create a new death penalty protocol after discovering issues with the system and the lethal injection drugs. However, critics claim the new protocol is even worse … ...