A woman who watched nearly 300 death row executions take place over 12 years opened up about how her macabre career impacted ...

The US state of Texas no longer offers death row inmates the chance to choose their last meal before being executed, thanks to Lawrence Russell Brewer.

Charles Thompson, who has been on Death Row for 25 years, opened up about his life behind bars in a new documentary where he talked about the 'worst thing' about his imprisonment ...

A new execution date has been requested for Robert Roberson, a Texas man who had been set last year to become the first ...

The man charged with killing a prominent Minnesota lawmaker and wounding another could face the death penalty, something that ...

The 'Doomsday mother' has been convicted in the murders of her children, her husband's former wife. She also was convicted ...

In the vast, sun-scorched plains of the African savannah, survival is a relentless battle, and the apex predators are nature’s most formidable warriors. This powerful documentary plunges you into the ...

Has Missouri football put itself in a position to contend for a College Football Playoff spot? Here's our post-spring analysis.

For Juneteenth, USA TODAY is telling the stories of five different communities across the country where residents are ...

Mississippi has executed the longest-serving man on its death row nearly 50 years after he was convicted of murder.

Richard Gerald Jordan, a 79-year-old Vietnam veteran with post-traumatic stress disorder whose final appeals were denied without comment by the U.S. Supreme Court, was sentenced to death in 1976 ...

Mississippi’s longest-serving death row inmate is set to be executed Wednesday nearly five decades after he kidnapped and ...