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A death row inmate was unable to convince a federal appeals court that Texas’ post-conviction DNA-testing procedures violate his right to due process on Thursday.
Shortly after taking office in 2019, Gov. Gavin Newsom issued a moratorium on executions and ordered death row dismantled.
The Mississippi Supreme Court has scheduled the execution for the state's longest-serving death row inmate for June 25 ...
The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to review a Mississippi death row inmate’s convictions for the slayings of eight people, ...
RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina lawmakers will discuss a bill Tuesday that would give death row inmates the option to choose between three execution methods: lethal injection, electrocution ...
This image provided by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Texas death row inmate Moises Sandoval Mendoza. HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A Texas man convicted of fatally strangling and stabbing ...
Mendoza is the third inmate executed in Texas this year and the 13th in the nation. He was pronounced dead at 6:40 p.m. CT. At the time of her death, Tolleson was a new mother to her 6-month ...
US Supreme Court Declines Review of Mississippi Death Row Inmate's Convictions in Killings of 8 JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to review a Mississippi death row ...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A Louisiana man who has spent nearly three decades on death row has had his conviction overturned by a district judge following a review of forensic analysis that the inmate ...