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

Richard Gerald Jordan has been on Mississippi's death row since 1977. The state has set an execution date of June 25, saying ...

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

In what he now calls a 'wonderful career', he recalled moving to Florida State Prison, famous for holding the US state's death row inmates and for being the site where serial killer Ted Bundy was ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A Louisiana man who has spent nearly three decades on death row has had his conviction ... in 1998 after being accused […] A woman pleaded not guilty Monday to fatally ...

Why are women so rarely sentenced to death in Texas? Delve into the intriguing statistics and the social dynamics that shape ...

(AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to review a Mississippi death row inmate’s convictions ... exceptions and has the support of women who were told they could not end their ...

Richard Jordan has been on death row in Mississippi since 1977 for the 1976 kidnapping and murder of Edwina Marter, the wife of a Gulfport bank executive.

The Mississippi Supreme Court has set an execution date for the state’s longest-serving death row inmate. Richard Gerald ...

Sanders was first sentence to death in the 2010 killing of 12-year-old Lexis Roberts. If a jury in the state finds him guilty this time, he could return to death row, but at the state ... the killing ...

May the court keep quiet while the death penalty judgment is being handed,” are the words that keep echoing in Godden Matanga’s head, from the moment he was sentenced to death in 2001. These words ...

Twenty-five years have passed since Mary Agnes Bowles was abducted from a Tulsa mall in her car, driven to a remote area and shot four to six ...