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

More than 200 Civil rights groups urge Gov. Gavin Newsom to use his powers to commute California's more than 500 death sentences over accusations of its constitutionality and racial discrimination.

The name of Afeni Shakur has hit the headlines once again after a shocking confession from Suge Knight in a newly released ...

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 ...

For weeks, Marion “Suge” Knight — rap’s infamous former Death Row Records kingpin — stood out as one of the most unlikely ...

ATMORE, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama man convicted of killing a woman in 1988 was put to death Tuesday evening in the nation’s sixth execution by nitrogen gas. Gregory Hunt, 65, was pronounced dead ...

City Councilman Hugo Soto-Martinez has called on Gov. Gavin Newsom to commute all remaining death row sentences in the state, it was announced Wednesday. On Friday, Soto-Martinez introduced a ...

Byron Black has been on death row since 1989 for the Nashville murders of his ex-girlfriend Angela Clay, 29, and her two daughters, Latoya, 9, and Lakesha, 6.

Sunny Jacobs, a former death row inmate who was convicted of a double murder in Florida in the 1970s and later freed, becoming a news media celebrity and a leading subject in an acclaimed Off ...

Payne had been on death row for the killings of a woman and her 2-year-old daughter. In January 2022, Judge Paula Skahan sentenced Payne to concurrent sentences of life with the possibility of ...

A Mississippi Supreme Court has denied a post-conviction rehearing appeal for death row inmate Richard Jordan.This was the latest in multiple attempts Jordan has fought his conviction and sentencing ...