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

Gov. Jeff Landry announced Monday that the state had developed a protocol for executing people with nitrogen gas, allowing it ...

Sisters from a convent outside Waco have repeatedly visited the prisoners—and even made them affiliates of their order. The ...

Ford was convicted of murdering Kimberly and Gregory Malnory, whose toddler daughter was found covered in her mother's blood ...

Since Texas reinstated capital punishment and adopted lethal injection as its means of execution in 1977, the state has put ...

A man was stabbed to death with a machete by two people in a park following a row, a court has heard. Kyle Marshall, 37, died ...

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

Every week, behind a half dozen security doors that lead to Unit 2—Tennessee’s death row—Kevin Burns holds a worship service. He leads Communion, prayer, liturgy, and a sermon with men who share his ...

In a 120-page order, Superior Court Judge Wayland Sermons also ruled that race was “a significant factor” in other death ...

Demetrius Frazier became the fourth inmate in the US to be put to death by the method as he served his sentence for the 1991 ...

Two men in Texas are sentenced to death for murdering their children — for one of them, it is already too late. For the other ...

I Am Ready, Warden,” nominated for an Oscar, follows John Henry Ramirez in the days before he was executed in Texas for murder. It also spotlights the sons of both Ramirez and his victim.