A hearing was held Thursday, April 17 in Caddo District Court for a death row inmate who is trying to appeal his sentence.

Oscar Franklin Smith, a Tennessee death row inmate scheduled to die on May 22, declined to select a method meaning it ...

The worst mass-murderer gunman in Illinois, Crimo will follow other monsters who have called Stateville home over the decades ...

Stephanie Dowells, 62, was visiting her husband behind bars for a conjugal visit at Mule Creek State Prison in California, US ...

In its initial stages, the California Model has improved working conditions for some officers. Others say it’s creating more violence in prisons.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCSC) - In just days before his scheduled execution, one South Carolina inmate on death row has filed a petition for clemency with Gov. Henry McMaster, asking to commute the sentence ...

An astounding 175 of those inmates were sentenced from Los Angeles County courts, giving L.A. the dubious distinction of holding more men (and three women) on death row than any state except Florida.

Menzies has been on Utah’s death row for nearly four decades, convicted of the 1986 kidnapping and murder of Maurine Hunsaker, a mother and phone company employee.

The Supreme Court acquitted a man after a decade on death row in a rape-murder case, citing a flawed police investigation with planted evidence and an unfair trial. The bench criticized the ...

Amnesty International Malaysia today called for the urgent commutation of the death sentence handed down to 140 individuals. Speaking at a press conference here, Nicole Fong, a research and ...

Malaysia has made significant progress in reducing its death row population following the abolition of the mandatory death penalty, but Amnesty International Malaysia warns that continued ...

Andy Burris Rock Hill’s James Robertson has been on South Carolina’s death row for the murder of his parents since 1999, and there has been a court-ordered federal halt to his execution in ...