NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Attorneys for a Tennessee death row inmate have launched a last-ditch effort to prevent his Aug. 5 ...

Wayne Osmond, 73. A singer, guitarist and founding member of the million-album-selling family act The Osmonds, who were known ...

The convicted killer, 79-year-old Richard Jordan, was executed by lethal injection on Wednesday, June 25, at the Mississippi State Penitentiary, a maximum-security prison farm, according to the ...

The longest-serving man on Mississippi’s death row was executed Wednesday, nearly five decades after he kidnapped and killed ...

At least 26 people were sentenced to die in 2024, an increase of at least five people from the previous year, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.

The Tennessee Supreme Court set execution dates for four people on death row in 2025. Oscar Franklin Smith's execution May 22 was the first in five years. A judge has temporarily called off one ...

The Tennessee Supreme Court set execution dates for four people on death row in 2025. Oscar Franklin Smith's execution May 22 was the first in five years. A judge has temporarily called off one ...

Robertson, 51, has been on death row since 1999 after killing both his parents in their Rock Hill home. He beat his father with the claw end of a hammer and a baseball bat and stabbed his mother.

The man accused of killing Mercedes Vega, 22, could face the death penalty if convicted. Sencere Hayes is accused of kidnapping her, shooting her and leaving her in a burning car along the highway.

A three-year-old girl suffering from a terminal brain tumour died after her parents initiated her into Santhara, a centuries-old Jain ritual of fasting unto death, sparking outrage and renewed ...

SAN FRANCISCO — By age 46, Bob Williams had spent more than half his life in isolation, waiting to die on San Quentin’s death row. Williams was 18 when he raped and murdered 40-year-old Mary ...