This is the third time Todd Kelvin Wessinger's death sentence was vacated and remanded back to state court for a new trial ...

Malcolm Alexander had been incarcerated at Angola prison 14 years already when he learned about DNA testing, the thing that ...

More than three years after his execution was stayed, an upcoming hearing will address death row inmate Ramiro Ibarra’s ...

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

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 ...

As of June 19, 2025, there were 169 people on death row in Texas. Four of them are women, including Melissa Lucio, who was convicted in 2008 of beating her 2-year-old daughter to death.

Sandy Gall, who has died aged 97, was one of the vintage faces of Independent Television News (ITN), having earned his ...

Mississippi carried out the execution of Richard Gerald Jordan, a 79-year-old Vietnam veteran who had spent nearly five ...

Death toll from an attack by gunmen in north-central Nigeria reaches 150, survivors say. Israeli opposition leader rallies behind Netanyahu's Iran operation, suspending months of criticism.