Tennessee death row prisoner Byron Black has filed a motion to deactivate his implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) at ...

A coalition of California and national civil rights leaders called on Governor Gavin Newsom to commute the death sentences of ...

Death row prisoner Byron Black is asking the Tennessee Supreme Court to step in and delay his scheduled Aug. 5 execution.

A death row inmate set to be executed later this year has asked the state Supreme Court to overturn a lower court ruling and ...

Denny Hamlin became a dad again and won another pole at Pocono Raceway. Hamlin skipped last week’s race in Mexico City ...

Reality stars, rappers and disgraced politicians have received some of the high-profile pardons doled out by the president ...

The state set 2025 execution dates for four people on death row after five years without one. ... Black, 69, shot and killed his girlfriend Angela Clay, 29, and her daughters, ...

Three-fourths were white, one-fourth Black. They ranged in age from their 20s into their70s, ... There are 37 prisoners on Mississippi's death row. All but one are men, ...

The Mississippi Supreme Court ruled on May 1 that a man on death row has exhausted all his legal remedies and set an execution date, yet the U.S. Supreme Court has not responded to a petition to ...

A death row inmate, Jones spent more than 30 years in one of the nation’s most notorious prisons, San Quentin. He was sentenced to death in 1996 for the murder of a California couple.

“The death penalty is 1,000 percent rooted in racism,” says professor Frank R. Baumgartner, a death-penalty expert at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, citing how Black citizens ...

Terry Pitchford was put back on Mississippi's death row after Attorney General Lynn Fitch appealed a federal judge's ... The racial makeup of Grenada County was about 40% Black at the time of ...