Then-new Gov. Gavin Newsom issued a moratorium on executions and ordered death row dismantled. Years later, inmates say they ...

The Mississippi Supreme Court has scheduled the execution for the state's longest-serving death row inmate for June 25.

Oscar Franklin Smith, a Tennessee death row inmate scheduled to die on May 22, declined to select a method meaning it ...

Jerone Hunter, 38, who has been on death row for 19 years, is trying to convince a jury to toss his death sentence.

In a ruling Thursday, the state’s high court said Jordan had exhausted all state and federal appeals and set the execution ...

Suge Knight agreed to a $1.5 million settlement on the eve of a retrial over claims he negligently killed a Compton dad.

The Mississippi Supreme Court has set an execution date for the man who has been on the state’s death row longer than any other inmate. According to the court, the ...

The death of a 37-year-old man follows an assault inside the Raymond Detention Center as a federal receiver is poised to take ...

Jeffrey Hutchinson was convicted in 2001 for the murder of his girlfriend and her three children in Crestview in 1998. He is ...

On Thursday, the Supreme Court of Mississippi set an execution date for Richard Gerald Jordan nearly 50 years after he murdered Edwina Marter in Harrison County.