A federal appellate panel said that Michael Sockwell was eligible to be retried because prosecutors systematically eliminated ...

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PARCHMAN, Miss. (AP) — The longest-serving man on Mississippi’s death row was executed Wednesday, nearly five decades after he kidnapped and killed a bank loan officer’s wife in a violent ...

Prison officials served death row inmate Oscar Franklin Smith his last meal Wednesday night, about 16 hours before he's scheduled to die by lethal injection. Smith, 75, requested hotdogs, tater ...

Arkansas death row inmate Latavious Johnson died of unknown causes at the Varner SuperMax prison on Friday afternoon, according to the state’s department of corrections. He was in his 40s.

MEMPHIS, Tenn., (AP) — A Tennessee judge did not have the authority to give Pervis Payne, who was formerly on death row, concurrent sentences of life in prison after ruling that he was ...

Latavious Johnson, a death row inmate, was pronounced dead at about 3:30 p.m. at the Varner Supermax in Gould, according to the Arkansas Department of Correctio ...

South Carolina’s electric chair is located in Columbia at the Broad River Correctional Institute. The state has not carried out an execution since May 2011. The death penalty is on hold while ...

Owens has long felt that Jordan, now 79 and the state’s longest-serving death row inmate, is responsible for his own death. Jordan has spent the last 49 years on death row.