A Tennessee death row prisoner has declared a hunger strike, saying he is protesting issues with medical care, the quality of ...

Howard Willis was sentenced to death in 2010 for the murders eight years earlier of newlyweds Adam Chrismer, 17, and Samantha ...

During his 20 years behind bars, Richard Lee Tabler says he's found God and leads a ministry of Death Row inmates. He's ...

Death row inmate James Dennis Ford, who violently killed his co-worker before raping and killing his wife, is due to be ...

Louisiana will seek to resume carrying out death sentences in the coming months after a 15-year pause, this time using ...

Georgia remains the only state where it must be proven “beyond a reasonable doubt,” the highest standard of proof in law.

A Texas man who murdered a strip club manager and smuggled a cellphone into death row to threaten a lawmaker is set to be ...

No capital punishment has been approved by the Supreme Court for a second year in a row in India. The last hangings in India ...

Arizona has set an execution date for a convicted killer on death row, marking the state's return to the death penalty after ...

Two states are set to see pauses on executions end as Arizona, Louisiana and South Carolina gave execution dates to three men ...

Two men convicted of murder, including one who has spent more than 25 years on Death Row, are to be executed by lethal ...

The Louisiana governor and attorney general are in favor of getting the execution process moving again after executions were ...